Updating software objects

• US 9,116,776 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2013
• Issued: 08/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Boggs, Joseph, Faus, Norman Lee, Huff, David P., Kearney, Bryan
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, UYEN T
• Application Number:
  US14/100,618
• Publication Number:
  US 20140096123A1
• Time in Patent Office: 624 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/219 Managing data history or versioning querying versioned data G06F16/2474; querying temporal data G06F16/2477
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

Updating of a software object is described. A first version of a software object is instantiated. User-inputted data used by the first version of the software is received from a user, and a current configuration state and the user-inputted data are registered. A second version of the software object is instantiated and the current configuration state and the user-inputted data of the first version of the software object are exported to the second version of the software object.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

instantiating, by a processor, a first version of a software object;

receiving, from a user of the software object, user-inputted data that is used by the first version of the software object during operation;

capturing an image of the first version of the software object comprising an initial configuration state and initial user-inputted data;

aggregating a change to the initial configuration state to produce a current configuration state of the first version of the software object;

registering, by the processor, a current configuration state and the user-inputted data of the first version of the software object;

instantiating, by the processor, a second version of the software object; and

exporting, by the processor, the current configuration state and the user-inputted data of the first version of the software object to the second version of the software object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein registering comprises registering the initial configuration state and the initial user-inputted data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein registering comprises registering incremental changes to the initial configuration state and incremental changes to the initial user-inputted data of the first version of the software object.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein exporting comprises aggregating the incremental changes to the initial configuration state and incremental changes to the user-inputted data to export a complete current configuration state and complete current set of user-inputted data to the second version of the software object.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the exporting comprises invoking a schema tool to conform the user-inputted data to a schema of the second version of the software object.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the schema tool pre-fills data values in the user-inputted data to conform to the schema of the second version of the software object.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the schema tool presents a dialog to the user to select data values to insert in the user-inputted data to conform to the schema of the second version of the software object.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first version of the software object is archived or deleted after instantiation and configuration of the second version of the software object.

9. A system comprising:

a memory comprising instructions; and

a processor, operably connected to the memory, the processor to execute the instructions to;

instantiate, by the processor, a first version of a software object;

receive, from a user of the software object, user-inputted data that is used by the first version of the software object during operation;

capture an image of the first version of the software object comprising an initial configuration state and initial user-inputted data;

aggregate a change to the initial configuration state to produce a current configuration state of the first version of the software object;

register a current configuration state and the user-inputted data of the first version of the software object;

instantiate a second version of the software object; and

export the current configuration state and the user-inputted data of the first version of the software object to the second version of the software object.

10. The system of claim 9, the processor to execute the instructions to register the initial configuration state and the initial user-inputted data.

11. The system of claim 10, the processor to execute the instructions to register incremental changes to the initial configuration state and incremental changes to the initial user-inputted data of the first version of the software object.

12. The system of claim 9, the processor to execute the instructions to invoke a schema tool to conform the user-inputted data to a schema of the second version of the software object.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the first version of the software object is archived or deleted after instantiation and configuration of the second version of the software object.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

instantiate, by the processor, a first version of a software object;

receive, from a user of the software object, user-inputted data that is used by the first version of the software object during operation;

capture an image of the first version of the software object comprising an initial configuration state and initial user-inputted data;

aggregate a change to the initial configuration state to produce a current configuration state of the first version of the software object;

register a current configuration state and the user-inputted data of the first version of the software object;

instantiate a second version of the software object; and

export the current configuration state and the user-inputted data of the first version of the software object to the second version of the software object.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, the processor to register the initial configuration state and the initial user-inputted data.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, the processor to register incremental changes to the initial configuration state and incremental changes to the initial user-inputted data of the first version of the software object.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, the processor to invoke a schema tool to conform the user-inputted data to a schema of the second version of the software object.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the first version of the software object is archived or deleted after instantiation and configuration of the second version of the software object.