Patent ID: 8745585
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system having a processor for generating meta-data for a product comprising: an artifact repository that stores first artifacts for building the product, wherein the product comprises a virtual machine operable on a cloud appliance, the artifact repository storing first meta-data for one or more of the first artifacts; and a build manager that builds second artifacts for the product from source code and one or more of the first artifacts based on information in a project script, the build manager adapted to combine the first meta-data for each of the one or more of the first artifacts used to build the second artifact to form second meta-data for each of the second artifacts, the second meta-data formed by combining source code meta-data for the source code used to build the second artifact with the first meta-data descriptive of the first artifacts used to build the second artifact.