Patent ID: 7503034

Claim:
A method of mapping referenced projects in an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) version of a software program to a container project associated with the referenced projects, comprising the steps of: creating a module mapping file containing mapping information for said referenced projects relative to said container project, said module mapping file storing data that maps relative URI's to IDE project names; storing said module mapping file in said container project; configuring the IDE version of the software program to read said module mapping file upon start-up of an application server running said IDE version of the software program, whereby path(s) of each referenced project are computed upon said reading of said module mapping file, said paths identifying absolute addresses on a machine on which said IDE version of the software program and application server are running; and storing said computed path(s) in a loose configuration file external to said container project on said machine; and using said computed paths by said application server to determine locations from which to load application files.