SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INSTALLING SOFTWARE APPLICATION BY UNINFLUENTIAL SYSTEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mechanism for enabling application which can be installed from a remote place without influencing already installed application and for installing application including a completely autologous description component. SOLUTION: Each component of the application is identified by an application manifesto 112 stored with the application. The application manifesto also includes information for describing various dependence of each component of the application. A remote user who is interested in the application can download the application to be described by the application manifesto at a local storage place 106. A shared component of the application is also shared except for the case that the existing application having possibility of depending on former version of the shared component continuously keep on depending on the version. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO