Patent ID: 7055128
Filing Date: 2006-05-30
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for building a software system, the system comprising: a plurality of build machines to build the software system by generating build files, each of the build files stored locally on the build machine that generates the build file, at least two of the plurality of build machines executing on separate computers; a first component for building a list of file names of one or more build files to be shared by at least some of the plurality of build machines employed in building the software system; and a second component for distributing to the at least some of the plurality of build machines the one or more build files identified in the list of file names, wherein, upon receiving the one or more build files identified in the list of files names, the at least some of the plurality of build machines store the one or more build files identified in the list of file names locally and wherein the first and second components are stored on computer-readable media.