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REUSE OF SHARED METADATA ACROSS APPLICATIONS VIA URL PROTOCOL

  • US 20090313256A1
  • Filed: 06/13/2008
  • Published: 12/17/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for facilitating the sharing of a metadata document by a plurality of software applications, the method comprising:

  • receiving, from a software application in the plurality of software applications, a uniform resource locator (URL) for the metadata document, the URL including a protocol component identifying a specialized protocol name and a path component identifying a name and namespace of the metadata document, the specialized protocol name indicating that the metadata document is stored in a shared metadata repository; and

    identifying the shared metadata repository based on configuration information associated with the software application.

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