Patent ID: 8141038
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a virtual Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) repository, comprising: providing, using a computing device, separate RAS assets for different lifecycle phases of a software asset in a plurality of different RAS repositories, the plurality of different RAS repositories together forming the virtual RAS repository at runtime through use of RAS related-assets, the plurality of different RAS repositories comprising: linking, using the computing device, the installable RAS asset stored in the archives RAS repository with the deployed RAS asset stored in the deployed archives RAS repository using the archive RAS related-asset, wherein the archive RAS related-asset comprises a uniform resource locator (URL), and wherein the URL of the archive RAS related asset includes information regarding a server on which the installable RAS asset was deployed and a path within the server; and linking, using the computing device, the deployed RAS asset stored in the deployed archives RAS repository with the instance RAS asset stored in the instances RAS repository using the deployed RAS related-asset, wherein the deployed RAS related-asset comprises an URL, and wherein the URL of the deployed RAS related-asset includes information regarding an instantiation of the deployed RAS asset.