Patent ID: 7716631

Claim:
A development system for developing enterprise software, the development system comprising: a one or more data stores maintaining at least one of the group consisting of: information and programming code related to enterprise hardware components including information on at least some servers and applications operating on these servers; information and programming code related to operating system settings; and information and programming code related to enterprise hardware components and operating system settings; an architectural component including a display operable for architecture of the enterprise software by selection via the display of one or more of the servers and applications operating on the servers; a development engine operable for deployment of at least a first commercial-off-the-shelf integrated development environment for development of a first software component of the enterprise software, the development engine further operable for deployment of at least a second commercial-off-the-shelf integrated development environment for development of a second software component of the enterprise software, wherein the second commercial-off-the-shelf integrated development environment is a different type of integrated development environment than the first commercial-off-the-shelf integrated development environment; and an interface component to promote sharing of data between the first commercial-off-the-shelf integrated development environment and the second commercial-off-the-shelf integrated development environment, wherein data developed in the first commercial-off-the-shelf integrated development environment during development of the first software component is stored by the development engine to the one or more data stores under control of the first commercial-off-the-shelf integrated development environment and is accessable by the development engine under control of the second commercial-off-the-shelf integrated development environment for use in development of the second software component by the second commercial-off-the-shelf integrated development environment.