Patent ID: 8387014

Claim:
A computer program product for synchronizing a first artifact and a second artifact, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith for processing a first and a second artifact that are interdependent, each artifact being modified independent of a modification to the other artifact after a last synchronization, the first and second artifacts each having a plurality of elements and being of different formats, the computer readable program code comprising: program code for generating a temporary artifact having all the elements of a last synchronized version of the first artifact and having all the elements of a latest version of the second artifact transformed as the first artifact; program code for merging the temporary artifact and a latest version of the first artifact to create a synchronized version of the first artifact; and program code for generating a synchronized version of the second artifact having all the elements of the latest version of the second artifact and having all the elements of the synchronized version of the first artifact transformed as the second artifact.