Patent ID: 7444376

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising a program storage medium having computer readable code embodied therein, said computer readable code being configured for creating an activation solution for commercial network services, said activation solution being configured to activate a specific commercial network service responsive to a commercial network service specification, comprising: computer readable code for accessing a plurality of building block archive (BAR) files, at least one of said plurality of BAR files including information pertaining to at least two of a plug-in component, a compound task component, a workflow component, a resource definition file component, and an auto-discovery component, said plurality of BAR files pertaining to subsolutions of said commercial network services, selected ones of said plurality of BAR files being combinable to facilitate creating a commercial network service; computer readable code implementing logic for combining said selected ones of said plurality of BAR files, said logic combining components in said selected ones of said plurality of BAR files by component type; and computer readable code implementing a user interface, said user interface enabling a human operator to select said selected ones of said plurality of BAR files among said plurality of BAR files to facilitate said combining.