Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a computer arrangement comprising a processor and a memory. The processor is operatively arranged to execute a group of instructions present in the memory unit, and by means of interaction with other hardware arranged to access data organized into named files. The invention is characterized by resolution of dependencies on resources represented by said data in form of named files by configuration of said instruction group so that such dependencies are resolved from a specific set of file names, which has the property that all names, used in that set of file names for the purpose of said resource reference, correspond to the same contents of referenced objects, on all computers connected to said set of file names in the corresponding primary standard way.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a computer arrangement comprising a processor and a memory. The processor is operatively arranged to execute a group of instructions (program) present in the memory unit, so that said program can initiate execution of other programs, supplying said started programs with some data in memory in a standard format (environment), optionally used by said started programs and normally inherited by implicit copying or reference at further initiations of other programs. The invention provides extra inheritance paths for the environment data so that programs can be configured to inherit environment data from ancestor programs other than their immediate ancestors, overriding the environment of the immediate ancestors. This makes it possible to manage separately the behavior of application programs which start each other and would otherwise inherit the same environment.