Method, system and computer program for installing software products based on package introspection

A computer program in a computer readable non-transitory storage medium for performing a method for assisting configuring a code execution entity, the method including the steps of:

• providing a package including an indication of a set of potential actions for enforcing a software feature, at least one of the potential actions being conditioned by a set of run-time parameters;
• evaluating the run-time parameters for the entity assigning a value belonging to a predetermined range to each run-time parameter;
• determining a set of actual actions from the set of potential actions to be performed on the entity for enforcing the software feature according to the assigned values;
• filtering the set of actual actions to produce filtered actual actions, each filtered actual action satisfying a predetermined criterion, wherein a discarded actual action is included in the set of potential actions in the package, and wherein the filtering is performed using an analyser component in an application engine at the entity;
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• providing an indication of the filtered actual actions to a controller for enabling the application of the package on the entity in response thereto, wherein the filtered actual actions are actual actions remaining in the set of actual actions.

A system for assisting configuring a code execution entity, the system comprising:

• a storage device including a storage medium, wherein the storage device stores computer usable program code;
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• a processor, wherein the processor executes the computer usable program code, and wherein the computer usable program code comprises:
• computer usable code for providing a package including an indication of a set of potential actions for enforcing software feature, at least one of the potential actions being conditioned by a set of run-time parameters;
• computer usable code for evaluating the run-time parameters for the entity assigning a value belonging to a predetermined range to each run-time parameter;
• computer usable code for determining a set of actual actions from the set of potential actions to be performed on the entity for enforcing the software feature according to the assigned values;
• computer usable code for filtering the set of actual actions to produce filtered actual actions, each filtered actual action satisfying a predetermined criterion, wherein a discarded actual action is included in the set of potential actions in the package, and wherein the filtering is performed using an analyser component in an application engine at the entity;
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• computer usable code for providing an indication of the filtered actual actions to a controller for enabling the application of the package on the entity in response thereto, wherein the filtered actual actions are actual actions remaining in the set of actual actions.