MODELING CUSTOMIZATIONS TO A COMPUTER SYSTEM WITHOUT MODIFYING BASE ELEMENTS

摘要

A customization environment uses a customization system that models customizations to a base computer system. Each set of customizations is stored as a separate extension package, which is stored separately from the code for the base system. During runtime, the extension packages are discovered in a runtime environment and applied to extend the base system, without overwriting any of the code for the base system.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of customizing a base computer system, comprising:
accessing a base model in the base computer system; receiving developer inputs to generate an extension model modeling customizations to the base model; and generating an extension package expressing the customizations modeled in the extension model, the extension package being separate from the base model so the base model is unaltered by the customizations modeled in the extension model.