| US 7,617,224 B2 | ||
| System and method for managing hierarchically related software components | ||
| Ingrid M. Moulckers, Austin, Tex. (US); and Ningning Wang, Round Rock, Tex. (US) | ||
| Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 30, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/343,188. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0192340 A1, Aug. 16, 2007 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 7/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 707—100 [707/8; 717/120; 717/176; 717/107] | 15 Claims |
| 1. A method for managing hierarchically related software components, comprising:
creating a first software component descriptor containing information about a first software component of a plurality of software
components;
creating a second software component descriptor containing information about a second software component of the plurality
of software components;
creating a plurality of aggregate descriptors, each descriptor containing information about relationships among the plurality
of software components and aggregates of the plurality of software components;
defining hierarchical interrelationships between the plurality of software components and the aggregate descriptors to produce
a component hierarchy;
managing lifecycles, access controls, interrelationships, versioning and a list of the plurality of software components to
maintain the consistency of the component hierarchy;
filtering the list of software components based upon the component hierarchy to produce a filtered list of software components;
selecting a particular software component from the filtered list of software components; and
integrating the particular software component into a software application; and modifying the component hierarchy based upon
associations generated by the filtering.
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