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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Nicholas D. J. Crossley, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Troy R. Dugger, Keller, TX (US);
David J. Honey, Crookham Village, GB;
Samuel Sung-Ok Lee, Irvine, CA (US);
Schuyler B. Matthews, Cary, NC (US);
Darcy L. Wiborg Weber, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Arrangements described herein relate to managing reusable artifacts. Responsive to receiving a request to create a placeholder for a reusable artifact representing a reusable unit, the placeholder for an appropriate version of the reusable artifact is created within a container and a first parameter identifying the reusable artifact is assigned to an artifact property of the placeholder. The placeholder further includes a branch property configured to indicate a first null value or a second parameter identifying a branch of the reusable artifact corresponding to a particular variant of the reusable artifact, and a version property configured to indicate a second null value or a third parameter identifying a particular version of the reusable artifact.