Patent Document ID: 8122440
Application ID: 11862009

Base Claim:
1. A method for identifying an external program code dependency, comprising: executing compiler functionality upon a code base to generate compilation parameters indicative of external programming code dependencies between one or more entities within the code base and one or more external program code modules, the compilation parameters not predefined before execution of the compiler functionality; and determining an external program code dependency indicative of a dependency between an entity within the code base and an external program code module based upon the compilation parameters, the external program code dependency comprising an indication of a source associated with the external program code module, at least one of the execution of the compiler functionality and the determination of the external program code dependency being automated, at least some of at least one of the executing and the determining implemented at least in part via a processor.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , comprising: determining the external program code dependency based upon a namespace of the entity.