Patent ID: 7614040

Claim:
A computer readable storage memory for storing data for access by an application program being executed on a data processing system, comprising: a data structure stored in said memory, said data structure including information that embodies resource dependency relationships of a plurality of resources used by said application program and including: a plurality of nodes stored in said memory, each of said nodes representing information pertaining to one of: a resource of the plurality of resources and an entity that logically contains a resource of the plurality of resources; one or more referent attributes for each of said nodes, wherein each referent attribute of the one or more referent attributes unidirectionally associates a first node of the plurality of nodes with a second node of the plurality of nodes, and wherein the resource or entity of the first node is dependent on the resource or entity of the second node; and wherein a node in the plurality of nodes representing an entity that logically contains a resource is resolved to the resource when the definition of the resource is discovered; a type differencing component capable of determining, for a first software resource that is modified, whether the modification is visible externally so that the modification is referenced by a second software resource; and an ordered task set capable of scheduling tasks associated with the plurality of resources such that there are no duplicate tasks, wherein said ordered task set contains a list of tasks to be executed based on a modification of the resource dependency relationships of the plurality of resources, and wherein a task of the list of tasks can perform one of: analysis of a resource associated with the task; and building of a resource associated with the task.