GENERATING INFORMATION ON APPLICATION TASKS FOR COMPONENT OBJECTS GROUPED IN A COMPOSITE OBJECT

• US 20120324379A1
• Filed: 08/23/2012
• Published: 12/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bertram, Randal Lee, Meyer, Bridget Marie, Van Heuklon, Jeffery John
• Application Number:
  US13/593,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20120324379A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45512 Command shells

Abstract

Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for generating information on application tasks for component objects grouped in a composite object. A composite object in a computer readable medium is comprised of component objects, wherein different application tasks are used to process the component objects. Metadata associates the application tasks for the component objects grouped in the composite object with the composite object. An operation is performed on the composite object by processing the metadata indicating the application tasks for the component objects grouped in the composite object on which the operation is performed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing a composite object in a computer readable medium comprised of component objects, wherein different application tasks are used to process the component objects;

providing metadata associating the application tasks for the component objects grouped in the composite object with the composite object, wherein at least two of the composite objects have different types of component objects each having different instances of metadata indicating different application tasks to process the different types of component objects in the at least two composite objects; and

processing the metadata, indicating the application tasks for the component objects grouped in the composite object, to render a user interface for the composite object rendering an indication of application tasks used to process the component objects in the composite object.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein there is at least one application task used to process the composite object, wherein rendering the user interface further comprises indicating the at least one application task to process the composite object.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprise:

receiving user selection of the composite object; and

rendering the user interface indicating the application tasks for the component objects in the selected composite object in response to receiving the selection of the composite object.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving user selection of one of the application tasks indicated in the user interface to process the selected component object; and

applying the selected application task to the selected component object.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the composite object comprises a container and the component objects comprise files generated by different applications comprising different file types stored within the composite object.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the composite object groups metrics, wherein the component objects comprise metrics, wherein each metric comprises a measurement of output of a computer system, wherein the application tasks associated with the metrics generate the metrics and perform operations with respect to the metrics.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein at least one of the metrics is associated with a plurality of application tasks, wherein each of the application tasks associated with one of the metrics is executable to generate the metric, further comprising:

providing a priority for application tasks associated with one metric indicating an order in which the application tasks are selected to generate the metric in the composite object.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein only one of the plurality of application tasks associated with the metric are selected to generate the metric according to the priority for the application tasks, further comprising:

rendering information on the metrics generated by the application tasks associated with the metrics.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein rendering the information further comprises:

for metrics associated with multiple application tasks, rendering information on the application tasks not used to generate the metric with the rendered information on the metric.

2. (canceled)

6-7. -7. (canceled)

13. A system, comprising:

a processor;

a computer readable medium including a composite object comprised of component objects, application tasks, wherein different application tasks are used to process the component objects, and metadata associating the application tasks for the component objects grouped in the composite object with the composite object, wherein at least two of the composite objects have different types of component objects each having different instances of metadata indicating different application tasks to process the different types of component objects in the at least two composite objects; and

a program included in the computer readable medium executed by the processor to process the metadata, indicating the application tasks for the component objects grouped in the composite object, to render a user interface for the composite object rendering an indication of application tasks used to process the component objects in the composite object.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the composite object groups metrics, wherein the component objects comprise metrics, wherein each metric comprises a measurement of output of a computer system, wherein the application tasks associated with the metrics generate the metrics and perform operations with respect to the metrics.

21. The system of claim 13, wherein there is at least one application task used to process the composite object, wherein rendering the user interface further comprises indicating the at least one application task to process the composite object.

14-15. -15. (canceled)

17. An article of manufacture comprising a computer readable storage medium having code executed to communicate with a computer readable medium and causing operations, the operations comprising:

providing a composite object in the computer readable medium comprised of component objects, wherein different application tasks are used to process the component objects;

providing metadata associating the application tasks for the component objects grouped in the composite object with the composite object, wherein at least two of the composite objects have different types of component objects each having different instances of metadata indicating different application tasks to process the different types of component objects in the at least two composite objects; and

processing the metadata, indicating the application tasks for the component objects grouped in the composite object, to render a user interface for the composite object rendering an indication of application tasks used to process the component objects in the composite object.

20. The article of manufacture of claim 17, wherein the composite object groups metrics, wherein the component objects comprise metrics, wherein each metric comprises a measurement of output of a computer system, wherein the application tasks associated with the metrics generate the metrics and perform operations with respect to the metrics.

22. The article of manufacture of claim 17, wherein there is at least one application task used to process the composite object, wherein rendering the user interface further comprises indicating the at least one application task to process the composite object.

23. The article of manufacture of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving user selection of the composite object; and

rendering the user interface indicating the application tasks for the component objects in the selected composite object in response to receiving the selection of the composite object.

18-19. -19. (canceled)