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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2005
Stanley Kieran Jerrard-dunne, Dublin, IE;
Bill Looby, Dublin, IE;
Margaret Mary O'connell, Allston, MA (US);
Stanley Kieran Jerrard-Dunne, Dublin, IE;
Bill Looby, Dublin, IE;
Margaret Mary O'Connell, Allston, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for aggregating two or more templated components using an aggregation component is provided. Each templated component has at least one configurable element. The aggregation component comprises at least one configurable element, and an extraction mechanism operable to identify configurable elements of the components selected for aggregation. The aggregation component further comprises a mapping mechanism for mapping configurable elements of the selected components to configurable elements of the aggregation component; a storage mechanism for storing data identifying aggregated components and the corresponding mappings of the configurable elements; and a management mechanism for managing data identifying configuration settings of the aggregated selected components.