Abstract:
A computer device (200) includes a deployment unit (220) which deploys an application program (100) into a runtime execution environment (203) based on configuration information from a plurality of configuration files (120), including at least one base configuration file (122) and one or more supplementary configuration files (123), wherein a merge unit (220) uses the one or more supplementary configuration files (123) to act upon and modify the configuration information provided in the base configuration file (122). A method of providing configuration files in a computer device (200) includes modifying configuration information provided in the base configuration file (122) using the one or more supplementary configuration files (123) to provide a merged configuration file (124), and deploying the application program (100) into the runtime execution environment (203) based on configuration information from the merged configuration file (124).
Abstract:
Documentation for application or web service, such as a web application programming interface (API), is generated by analyzing bytecode for the application itself. Metadata contained within the bytecode and that specifies the functionality of the web service is extracted and used as a template and basis for documentation. A second source of documentation, which contains detailed documentation of the web service, is contributed by the web service developer and merged with the metadata extracted from the bytecode.