Indirect hierarchical views for software application management
CA 2201276 C · Owner: Ibm Canada Limited-Ibm Canada Limitee · Inventors: Sluiman, Harm; Starkey, Michael
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The invention provides a technique for managing multiple contextual views of source code files. In a file system, different tasks demand that source code files be grouped in different hierarchical directories. When some or all of this manipulation is of the physical files themselves the directories, can become confused, and it may be difficult for the next user to access needed source code files. In the technique of the invention the physical location of the files is independent of all contextual views, and is maintained in a separate viewable hierarchy. All items in contextual view hierarchies contain only references to the physical location of the source code files and so modifications of …
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- Filed March 27, 1997 and granted January 25, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 27, 2017.
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