Portable Application Registry

A method, comprising:

• updating, by a computing system, a table to include first data usable to locate a first portion of metadata in a supplementary database that is accessible from a storage device, the metadata related to one or more functions of an application executing on the computing system, the table also including second data usable to locate a second portion of the metadata in a system database of the computing system;
• receiving, during execution of the application, a request for one or more portions of the metadata;
• determining, from the table, one or more locations of the one or more portions of the metadata of the request;
• and
• responding to the request by at least one of reading the first portion of the metadata from the supplementary database or reading the second portion of the metadata from the system database.

A computing system comprising

• one or more processors;
• memory;
• and
• programming instructions stored on the memory and executable by the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
• accessing a supplementary database from a device that stores the supplementary database;
• updating a table usable to access metadata associated with functionality of an application, the updating including writing first data to the table that is usable to access a first portion of the metadata from supplementary database, the table also including second data that is usable to locate a second portion of the metadata from a system database;
• receiving, during execution of the application, a request for one or more portions of the metadata;
• determining, from the table, one or more locations of the one or more portions of the metadata of the request;
• and
• responding to the request by at least one of reading the first portion of the metadata from the supplementary database or reading the second portion of the metadata from the system database.

A storage device comprising one or more programming instructions that are executable by one or more processors of a computing system to:

• update a table created by a program loader of the computing system to include first data usable to access a first portion of metadata in a supplementary database, the first portion of the metadata associated with a customizable function of an application, the table also including second data usable to access a second portion of the metadata in a system database of the computing system;
• receive, during execution of the application, a request for one or more portions of the metadata;
• determine, based on the table, to access the one or more portions of the metadata from at least one of the supplementary database or the system database;
• and
• respond to the request by accessing the one or more portions of the metadata from at least one of the supplementary database or the system database.