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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
May. 30, 2007
Karunakar Bojjireddy, Apex, NC (US);
Carroll E. Fulkerson, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Jim A. Laredo, Katonah, NY (US);
Gregory J. Rosensteel, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Amber Roy Chowdhury, Cary, NC (US);
Karunakar Bojjireddy, Apex, NC (US);
Carroll E. Fulkerson, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Jim A. Laredo, Katonah, NY (US);
Gregory J. Rosensteel, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Amber Roy Chowdhury, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for managing a configuration of heterogeneous software artifacts through a common central configuration representation includes adding a plurality of software artifacts from an initial software solution to a heterogeneous configuration tool. Using this heterogeneous configuration tool, artifact-level configuration parameters are extracted out of selected software artifacts by the heterogeneous configuration tool. The extracted artifact-level configuration parameters are then presented in a single representation. A subset of the presented extracted artifact-level configuration parameters is mapped to a set of solution-level parameters, which are then exposed in a subsequent software solution. Thereafter, parameters for one or more of the solution-level parameters, which are used by the subsequent software solution, are exposed. These parameters for the subsequent software solution are then mapped back to the artifact-level configuration parameters of the subsequent software solution.