Resource management method
AssigneeOracle International Corporation
InventorsRichard Grieve, Paolo Fragapane
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Abstract
There is provided a method of managing a resource within a computer system using a configuration wrapper, the method comprising: providing a configuration file comprising configuration data for the resource; generating metadata related to the configuration data; and automatically processing the metadata to produce a configuration wrapper for the resource. The configuration wrapper may be a java object with management attributes and methods.
Claims25
A method of managing a computer resource using a configuration wrapper, the method comprising:
- providing a computer-readable configuration file comprising configuration data for the resource to a computer system;
- generating, with the computer system, computer-readable metadata related to the configuration data;
- automatically processing the metadata, with the computer system, to produce a configuration wrapper for the resource that can be used to manage the configuration and
- storing the configuration wrapper in a computer-readable medium.
A data structure for use in managing a resource within a computer system, the data structure comprising:
- a configuration file comprising configuration data for the resource;
- a metadata file comprising metadata associated with the configuration data;
- and
- a configuration wrapper for use in managing the resource,
- wherein the configuration wrapper was generated with the computer system automatically based on the metadata file.
A management system for managing a resource within a computer system, the management system comprising:
- means for storing configuration data for the resource;
- means for storing metadata associated with the configuration data;
- and
- means for managing the resource,
- wherein the means for managing the resource was generated automatically based on the means for storing meta data.
A system for generating a configuration wrapper for use in managing a resource, the resource having a configuration file, the system comprising:
- an input module adapted to receive a reference to a metadata file related to the configuration file;
- a mapping module adapted to store the reference in memory;
- a metadata module adapted to generate one or more metadata objects in memory based on data within the metadata file;
- a builder module adapted to generate one or more configuration wrapper objects in memory based on the metadata objects;
- and
- a writer module adapted to write one or more implementation files based on the one or more configuration wrapper objects generated by the builder module,
- wherein the one or more implementation files are used to implement a configuration wrapper for the resource.
A computer-readable medium comprising program code configured to process metadata associated with configuration data for a resource within a computer system to generate a configuration wrapper for use in managing the resource.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.