Patent ID: 7886278

Claim:
A method for configuration monitoring comprising: establishing instructions for monitoring a computer application, wherein the instructions include identification of one or more configuration points of the computer application that are to be monitored and identification of parameters that are to be collected in monitoring, the configuration points being points in the computer application including settings for control of computer application processing, wherein each of the one or more configuration points is a schema or a rule; running the computer application; monitoring the one or more configuration points of the computer application during runtime, the monitoring including monitoring of program objects that are accessed by the one or more configuration points; determining that one or more program objects are accessed by the computer application at a first configuration point of the one or more configuration points during the running of the computer application; storing data that is collected regarding the one or more program objects that are accessed by the computer application at the first configuration point during the running of the computer application, wherein the collected data is stored in a central repository that is accessible to multiple developers for the computer application, and wherein the stored data includes information regarding types of the one or more program objects that were encountered by the first configuration point in the running of the computer application; upon concluding the running of the computer application, receiving a request to modify a setting of the first configuration point in a reconfiguration of the computer application; and automatically retrieving and displaying the collected data regarding the one or more program objects in response to the request to modify the first configuration point.