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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2012
Pivotal Software, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Adrian Colyer, Southhampton, GB;
Joseph Benjamin Hale, Southampton, GB;
Andrew Wilkinson, Southampton, GB;
Pivotal Software, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer device () includes a deployment unit () which deploys an application program () into a runtime execution environment () based on configuration information from a plurality of configuration files (), including at least one base configuration file () and one or more supplementary configuration files (), wherein a merge unit () uses the one or more supplementary configuration files () to act upon and modify the configuration information provided in the base configuration file (). A method of providing configuration files in a computer device () includes modifying configuration information provided in the base configuration file () using the one or more supplementary configuration files () to provide a merged configuration file (), and deploying the application program () into the runtime execution environment () based on configuration information from the merged configuration file ().