Patent
1996-03-26
1998-01-06
Amsbury, Wayne
395682, G06F 1730
Patent
active
057065020
ABSTRACT:
A portfolio management system (PMS) is disclosed that allows users to manage, create, edit, debug and compile software portfolios that can include several different types of components, or projects. For example, projects can be Java applets, standalone executable programs, image files, Java class libraries or remote Java applets. The software portfolios and/or their constituent projects can be stored on the system hosting the portfolio management system or on any remote system that can be accessed via the Internet using standard Internet communications protocols, such as FTP or HTTP. The PMS includes portfolio files, each of which includes links to the projects that compose a portfolio and project files that set out the attributes of one project. The PMS also provides portfolio methods that allow users to create, choose, import and remove entire portfolios and project methods that allow users to create, import, choose, edit, remove, run, copy and paste projects. The contents of a particular portfolio or project file determines how the PMS implements the aforementioned methods. For example, if a user wants to import a portfolio from a remote system, the PMS invokes an integrated Web browser, which downloads the desired portfolio onto the local system. The PMS also allows users to publish portfolios and projects on the Internet to be used by others within certain limits set by the publisher. For example, the publisher can restrict copying of source programs while allowing copying of executables.
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Foley Jill Paula
Sielski Karen Lynn
Amsbury Wayne
Crisman Douglas J.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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