Method and system for java program storing database object entries in an intermediate form between textual form and an object-oriented form

A carrier medium comprising program instructions for expressing contents of an object-oriented database in an intermediate form for sending to a Java program, wherein said program instructions are executable to implement:

• expressing a plurality of entries corresponding to objects in said object-oriented database in said intermediate form, wherein said entries and said objects relate to configuration parameters of a computer system, wherein said intermediate form is derived from a textual form expressed according to a grammar, wherein said object-oriented database stores configuration data that identifies available resources of said computer system, and wherein said intermediate form is configurable to populate said object-oriented database;
• sending said plurality of entries in said intermediate form to said Java program;
• and
• said Java program storing said plurality of entries in said intermediate form in a computer readable medium for populating another object-oriented database.

A computer system for expressing contents of an object-oriented database in an intermediate form for sending to a Java program, said computer system comprising:

• a CPU;
• and
• a memory coupled to said CPU;
• wherein said memory stores said intermediate form and said object-oriented database;
• wherein said memory stores program instructions executable by said CPU, wherein said program instructions are executable to:
• express a plurality of entries corresponding to objects in said object-oriented database in said intermediate form, wherein said entries and said objects relate to configuration parameters of said computer system, wherein said intermediate form is derived from a textual form expressed according to a grammar, wherein said object-oriented database stores configuration data that identifies available resources of said computer system, and wherein said intermediate form is configurable to populate said object-oriented database;
• sending said plurality of entries in said intermediate form to said Java program;
• and
• said Java program storing said plurality of entries in said intermediate form in a computer readable-medium for populating another object-oriented database.

A method, comprising:

• a Java program on a computer system storing configuration data identifying available resources of a plurality of computer systems in an object-oriented database, wherein the object-oriented database includes a plurality of objects related to configuration parameters of each of the plurality of computer systems;
• the Java program receiving an event notification indicating another Java program on another computer system of the plurality of computer systems, wherein the event notification relates to at least part of the configuration data in the object-oriented database;
• the Java program expressing one or more of the plurality of objects in said object-oriented database corresponding to the event notification into a textual form according to a grammar;
• the Java program sending the textual form to the another Java program on the another computer system;
• the another Java program deriving a plurality of entries in an intermediate form from the textual form expressed according to the grammar;
• and
• the another Java program populating another object-oriented database of the another computer system from the intermediate form.