System and method for configuring an application environment on a computer platform

摘要

A method is disclosed for configuring an environment on a host computer platform to facilitate installation of an application. The method includes the steps of providing environment-dependant command lines containing a plurality of tokens, providing environment-dependant contextual data describing an environment, generating the environment by replacing the tokens in the environment-dependant command lines with environment-dependant contextual data describing the environment, and transferring the environment to the host computer platform for configuration.