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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2005
Mary Claire Lehner, San Jose, CA (US);
Mary Claire Lehner, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of a method, system and article of manufacture provide a version number. An object has a present name and a present version number. In response to changing the present name of the object to a different name, the different name having been used by one or more other objects, one or more values of one or more first components of one or more other version numbers associated with the one or more other objects, respectively, are identified. An other version number is generated wherein a value of the first component of the other version number is different from the one or more values of the one or more first components.