Patent ID: 7908290
Filing Date: 2011-03-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, from a registry for two or more repositories, information describing an object definition of a first repository of the two or more repositories, a repository being a collection of object definitions associated with an application, the first repository being a collection of object definitions associated with a first application, the registry including information describing object definitions of the two or more repositories; and using the information to generate a proxy for the object definition, the proxy being a reference to the object definition of the first repository, and storing the proxy in a second repository of the two or more repositories, the second repository being a collection of definitions associated with a second application, wherein the proxy is available to the second application for use as though the proxy is an object definition of the second repository, whereby there needs to be only one of the object definition stored in the two or more repositories.