Transferring specifications and providing an integration point for external tools to access the specifications

Provided are techniques for using a specification. A first specification that was created in a portable data format with an archive tool is imported, wherein the specification indicates whether data is to be archived or retrieved, wherein the specification was created for execution at a first comput...

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Main Authors DREHER BRIAN S, DONEY GARY C
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 03.05.2007
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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Summary:Provided are techniques for using a specification. A first specification that was created in a portable data format with an archive tool is imported, wherein the specification indicates whether data is to be archived or retrieved, wherein the specification was created for execution at a first computing device, and wherein importing includes parsing information in the first specification to populate one or more data structures. A second specification is created using the one or more data structures, wherein the second specification may be executed at a second computing device which imported the first specification.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20050265053