Patent ID: 8774029

Claim:
A method, comprising the steps of: on a computer of an application server, creating a list of a plurality of configuration files corresponding to a plurality of applications running on the application server; on the computer of the application server, receiving a selection of at least one configuration file from the list of the plurality of configuration files to be modified on the application server; on the computer of the application server, generating a temporary configuration file corresponding to each selected configuration file; for each temporary configuration file, receiving a respective configuration of a setting of the temporary configuration file; and generating, on the computer of the application server, an actual configuration file corresponding to each temporary configuration file and respective received configuration, wherein: each actual configuration file replaces each corresponding selected configuration file; each actual configuration file is accessed by a corresponding application of the plurality of applications running on the application server; and each temporary configuration file is deleted or maintained in memory distinct from each corresponding actual configuration file.