Patent ID: 8108837

Claim:
A method for accommodating different resolutions of references to components in composite applications, the method comprising: providing a composite application, including a plurality of Note Storage Format (NSF) components, stored in a first storage unit; providing a first set of references in the first storage unit that map, respectively, to each of the plurality of NSF components in the composite application, wherein each of the plurality of NSF components is stored in its own storage unit, and the storage unit for each of the plurality of NSF components is included in at least one database, wherein the first set of references are accessible in a development environment configured to access a current execution context and stored data of the plurality of NSF components to return a fully qualified component reference; and providing a second set of references accessible in a run-time environment, the second set of references derived from the first set of references by a formula, the second set of references and the first set of references each providing access to the plurality of NSF components in a fully qualified manner in the distinct run-time environment and development environment, respectively, wherein the first set of references and the second set of references are configured to reference the stored data of the plurality of NSF components to allow: updating of the stored data of the plurality of NSF components to reflect any change in a location of the storage units for each of the plurality of NSF components; and accessing the stored data of the plurality of NSF components in the development environment and the run-time environment, wherein the first set of references and the second set of references are realized as distinct scripts.