Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to templated application deployment and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for the uniform specification of the creation and management of an application template. In one embodiment, a method for creating and managing application templates utilizing assets can be provided. The method can include grouping templated application components as assets described by a profile, building a manifest for the grouped assets, and packaging the grouped assets and the manifest in an archive. In this regard, grouping templated application components as assets described by a profile, can include grouping templated application components as Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) assets described by an RAS profile.

Abstract: The present invention provides a virtual Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) repository. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: providing RAS assets for each different lifecycle phase of a software asset; and linking the RAS assets together using RAS related-assets.

Abstract: A method, system, apparatus and article of manufacture for producing a customized application. In a preferred method of the invention, a selection of components can be identified which are to be deployed to form the customized application. Within the selection of components, points of variability can be specified which can be assigned values when deploying the selection of components. The identified selection of components and the specified points of variability can be persisted in a template. Subsequently, the template can be processed to deploy the identified selection of components, to prompt for values to be assigned to the points of variability, and to configure the identified selection of components with the values at the points of variability thereby producing the customized application.

Abstract: The present invention provides a standardized way to incorporate any new or legacy application into a templatable solution by using Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) profile features. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: providing a default RAS profile for a templatable RAS asset corresponding to the application; and adding at least one extension to the default RAS profile, the at least one extension including a templatable implementation extension for implementing a templatable interface.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for automating packaging and provisioning of J2EE Web Modules to Eclipse-based Rich Clients.

Abstract: A method, system, apparatus and article of manufacture for producing a customized application. In a preferred method of the invention, a selection of components can be identified which are to be deployed to form the customized application. Within the selection of components, points of variability can be specified which can be assigned values when deploying the selection of components. The identified selection of components and the specified points of variability can be persisted in a template. Subsequently, the template can be processed to deploy the identified selection of components, to prompt for values to be assigned to the points of variability, and to configure the identified selection of components with the values at the points of variability thereby producing the customized application.

Abstract: A method, system, apparatus and article of manufacture for producing a customized application. In a preferred method of the invention, a selection of components can be identified which are to be deployed to form the customized application. Within the selection of components, points of variability can be specified which can be assigned values when deploying the selection of components. The identified selection of components and the specified points of variability can be persisted in a template. Subsequently, the template can be processed to deploy the identified selection of components, to prompt for values to be assigned to the points of variability, and to configure the identified selection of components with the values at the points of variability thereby producing the customized application.

Abstract: The present invention provides relates to the location and management of components in a unified manner across an enterprise using the Reusable Asset Specification (RAS). A method for locating components across an enterprise in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: generating a RAS asset for each of a plurality of components; registering each of the RAS assets on at least one RAS repository, the registering providing meta-data for each of the plurality of components; and locating a component using the meta-data provided in the RAS repositories during the registration process.