发明名称 |
Request based automation of software installation, customization and activation |
摘要 |
The invention relates to a system and method for request based installation, customization and activation of software products on a computer system by means of a setup infrastructure (20) for coordinating the process phases. A plurality of exploiter plug-ins (24) are provided, each assigned to a program product already installed in the computer system or a program product to be installed. The exploiter plug-ins are used by the setup infrastructure for indicating a program package description and program product description and for providing customization dialogs and support to instantiate and activate the program to be installed. Bind supporter plug-ins (23) are assigned to selected ones of the program products and used for supporting the binding procedure by providing bind services to the setup infrastructure. The supporter plug-ins are used by the exploiter plug-ins to establish binding to at least some of the program packages or products stored, where the binding parameters needed by the exploiter plug-ins are indicated to the supporter plug-ins by bind requests. Package adapter plug-ins are provided to provide data format information for enabling the setup infrastructure to identify a program product to be installed and to generate product definition data. A management directory (27) is used for storing data associated with a particular program product and references to program products in a program library of the computer system.
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申请公布号 |
US2002013939(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2002.01.31 |
申请号 |
US20000752053 |
申请日期 |
2000.12.29 |
申请人 |
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION |
发明人 |
DAYNES GREGORY;LENZ NORBERT;SCHUUR ADRAINUS |
分类号 |
G06F9/445;(IPC1-7):G06F9/455 |
主分类号 |
G06F9/445 |
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