Lifecycle stable user interface adaptations

An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to tangibly store instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to;

• receive one or more user interface (UI) adaptations to a default UI;
• save the one or more UI adaptations in a metadata file maintained for storing the one or more UI adaptations;
• reconstruct the one or more UI adaptations by combining the metadata file together with a data file used for generation of the default UI;
• and
• reconstruct the one or more UI adaptations to a following release of the default UI by using one or more stable anchors as extension points to attach the one or more UI adaptations, wherein the one or more UI adaptations are selected at runtime from a UI panel comprising a first selection list with one or more screen areas on which the one or more UI adaptations are performed, and a second selection list with a set of changes applicable for the one or more screen areas, and wherein the one or more stable anchors are semantically coherent set of fields in the default UI remaining in the following release of the default UI.

A computer system for lifecycle stable user interface (UI) adaptations including at least one processor for executing program code and memory, the system comprising:

• a display to visualize a UI;
• an input device to receive user's UI adaptations;
• a file system repository to persist information for the generation of the UI;
• an extractor module within the memory to store the user's UI adaptations to the file system repository as a secondary source of information for UI generation, wherein the user's UI adaptations are attached to one or more stable anchors as extension points, and wherein the user's UI adaptations are selected at runtime from a UI panel comprising a first selection list with one or more screen areas on which the user's UI adaptations are performed, and a second selection list with a set of changes applicable for the one or more screen areas, and wherein the one or more stable anchors are semantically coherent set of fields in a default version of the UI remaining in a following release of the UI;
• and
• a UI generator module within the memory to generate the UI by combining a default source of information for UI generation and the secondary source of information for UI generation.