摘要 |
<p>The inventions relate generally to computer systems having facilities for providing virtual portions of file systems and configuration settings to applications. More particularly, the inventions relate to methods of capturing software packages using layered computing systems and software package products produced by those methods. An exemplary system includes a base operating system (110), operating system file system and registry libraries (108), layering system libraries and/or software (106), applications (104), a management applications programmer interface (102), and a layer manager application (100). Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims.</p> |