Abstract: The subject invention relates to systems and methods that generate documentation discovered by programmatic and/or automatic code analysis. The generated documentation can be related to, for example, security, error conditions, permissions, exceptions, etc. Static code analysis and/or runtime analysis can be utilized to provide more complete, updated and/or accurate documentation as compared to conventional techniques by obtaining information, which can be utilized to automatically generate the documentation. According to an aspect of the subject invention, documentation can be generated that can supplement existing documentation.

Abstract: Access control data is transcoded or translated into a unified format. The unified format is acceptable and extensible so that other control languages can be transcoded into the unified format. Rights management information may be converted to unified storage metadata for use in a unified storage system. The construction of a data object that contains data and rights management information comprises transcoding both the original data to the unified storage format as well as transcoding the rights management information from any of a number of platforms to the rights management format used by the unified storage platform. Transcoding may occur in a transacted environment so that failures to complete will not degrade or lose data and rollback is possible if the process fails.

Abstract: Existing documentation prepared for a pattern displayed in a first source is applied to a similar pattern displayed in a second source. The first source may be source code in a first programming language and the second source may be source code in a second language. Alternatively, patterns may be found in object code, intermediate code, executable code, hardware, or user actions.

Abstract: The subject invention relates to systems and methods that generate documentation discovered by programmatic and/or automatic code analysis. The generated documentation can be related to, for example, security, error conditions, permissions, exceptions, etc. Static code analysis and/or runtime analysis can be utilized to provide more complete, updated and/or accurate documentation as compared to conventional techniques by obtaining information, which can be utilized to automatically generate the documentation. According to an aspect of the subject invention, documentation can be generated that can supplement existing documentation.

Abstract: A problem and a solution to the problem may be described via a language capable of representing structure and relationships. From the problem/solution description, solution-based documentation such as text, figures and code may be programmatically generated.