Abstract: Methods and apparatus for dynamically deploying software agents are disclosed. For example, a user of an electronic record management system may deploy a plurality of different background processes (e.g., OCR, dedup, etc.) that may each take several hours to complete. Subsequently, the user may decide to change the number of servers dedicated to one or more background process. In addition, the user may decide to deploy additional background processes. Neither of these user actions interrupts any of the background processes.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for building a search index for a database are disclosed. When an incremental build trigger is detected (e.g., a threshold number of documents are added to database), the system determines which sub-indexes need to be updated and which sub-indexes do not need to be updated. Rather than update the affected sub-indexes directly, the system builds new sub-indexes to replace the affected sub-indexes. Database queries that occur during the generation of the replacement sub-indexes use the old sub-indexes. When the new sub-indexes are ready, the system moves pointers from the old sub-indexes to the new sub-indexes so that subsequent database queries use the new sub-indexes.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for uninstalling an application are disclosed. When a user selects an application to be uninstalled, a database is queried to determine a plurality of software objects that are associated with the selected application. The system then displays a plurality of relationships between the plurality of software objects (e.g., a tree view with check boxes to select and unselect objects). The display indicates which software objects in the plurality of software objects can be deleted without affecting other software objects in the plurality of software objects. In addition, the display indicates which software objects in the plurality of software objects cannot be deleted without affecting other software objects in the plurality of software objects. Based on these results, the user then determines a new list of objects to keep and objects to delete. This process is repeated until the user approves the list and deletes the application.