JPH11154080A - Program maintaining and updating device and program recording medium thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently maintain and update a program group constituting software in decentralized software development environment. SOLUTION: A program retrieval means 101 selects a program to be updated according to program interdependence and version information on the programs. When an updating object in an object program, a program translating means 103 translates a source program to generate the object program. When the updating object is an execution program, a program merging means 104 merges the object program to generate the execution program. Here, access to a program is enabled by a program access means 102 even for a program at a remote location.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to a program maintenance
The present invention relates to an updating apparatus and a program recording medium thereof, and more particularly to a program maintenance / updating apparatus and a program recording medium thereof in a software distributed development environment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this kind of program maintenance / updating apparatus is provided with a dependency relation database between programs and a version management database of each program, as shown in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-146787. Extracts the affected programs affected by the program update and the person in charge of developing the affected programs, displays the extracted information on the screen, notifies the update worker and the program developer, and approves the notified program developers Alternatively, it was determined whether or not to update the program based on the rejection information.

[0003]

The conventional program maintaining / updating apparatus as described above has the following problems.

A first problem is that when a program is updated during the development of a software product, the updated latest program cannot be obtained from the development environment of a remote program developer. The reason for this is that a method for accessing the latest program from the development environment of a remote program developer is not usually set.

[0005] A second problem is that, when a program is updated after shipping a software product, the updated latest program cannot be obtained from a use environment of a remote program user. The reason is that a method for accessing the latest version of the program from the use environment of the program user in a remote place is not set.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a program maintenance / updating apparatus capable of acquiring a latest updated program from a development environment of a remote program developer when the program is updated during software product development. It is in.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a program maintenance / updating apparatus capable of acquiring the latest version of a program from the usage environment of a program user when the program is updated after shipping a software product.

[0008]

According to the present invention, there is provided a program maintenance / updating apparatus having a plurality of storage devices each of which stores a program and which is installed in a distributed manner, and a dependency relationship between the programs stored in the storage device. And a program to be maintained / updated is determined based on the version information, and the program stored in the storage device is managed in accordance with the determination.

Further, the program maintenance / updating apparatus of the present invention has a plurality of storage devices each of which stores a program and is installed in a distributed manner, and which stores a dependency between the programs stored in the storage device. A relationship storage unit, a program search unit for searching for an update target program based on the dependency information and the version information of the program, a program replacement unit for updating the program searched by the program search unit by program replacement, and the program search unit And program access means for accessing a program based on a request from the program replacement means.

A program maintenance / updating apparatus according to the present invention has a plurality of storage devices each storing and distributing a program, and having a dependency relationship between programs stored in the storage device. A relation storage unit, a program search unit that searches for an update target program based on the dependency information and the version information of the program, a program translation unit that updates the program searched by the program search unit by program translation, and the program search unit A program combining means for updating the retrieved program by program combining, and a program access means for accessing the program based on a request from the program searching means, the program translating means, and the program combining means. .

In the above-mentioned program maintenance / updating apparatus, the program retrieving means updates the program retrieved by the program retrieving means by program substitution, and the program access means accesses the program based on a request from the program replacing means. It is comprised including.

Further, the program recording medium of the program maintenance / updating apparatus of the present invention has a plurality of storage devices each storing and distributing the program, and the dependency between the programs stored in the storage device. A first step of searching for a program to be updated based on the program and the version information of the program, a second step of updating the program searched by the first step by program replacement, the first step and the second step. A third step of accessing the program based on the request of the second step.

Further, the program recording medium of the program maintenance / updating device of the present invention has a plurality of storage devices each storing and distributing the programs, and the dependency between the programs stored in the storage devices. And a first step of searching for an update target program based on the program version information and a fourth step of updating the program searched by the first step by program translation,
A fifth step of updating the searched program by the program combination in the first step, and a sixth step of accessing the program based on the request of the first step, the fourth step, and the fifth step. And the following steps.

Further, in the above-mentioned program recording medium, a second step of updating the program searched in the first step by program replacement, and a seventh step of accessing the program based on the request of the second step. And steps.

That is, the program maintenance / updating apparatus of the present invention comprises: a dependency storage unit for storing a dependency relationship between programs; a program storage unit for storing a program constituting software; A program search means for searching for a program to be updated based on the relationship and version information of the program, a program translation means for updating the program searched by the program search means by program translation, and a program update for the program searched by the program search means Combining means, a program replacing means for updating a program searched by the program searching means by program replacement, and accessing a program based on requests from the program searching means, the program translating means, the program combining means, and the program replacing means. And a program access means.

[0016]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, a program maintenance / updating device according to the present invention includes a control device 1 that operates under program control, a first storage device 2 that stores information, and a second storage device 2 that stores information.
Storage device 3.

The first storage device 2 has a dependency storage unit 20.
1, a first source program storage unit 202, a first target program storage unit 203, and a first execution program storage unit 204.

The dependency storage unit 201 stores in advance the dependencies between programs constituting software. The first source program storage unit 202 stores a source program, the first target program storage unit 203 stores a target program, and the first execution program storage unit 204 stores an execution program.

The second storage device 3 includes a second source program storage unit 301 and a second target program storage unit 302.
And Note that the second storage device 3 is connected to the control device 1 by a communication line (not shown).

The second source program storage section 301 stores a source program, and the second target program storage section 302 stores a target program.

The control device 1 includes a program search means 101
, A program access unit 102, a program translation unit 103, and a program combination unit 104.

The program search means 101 refers to the dependency relationship storage unit 201 and refers to the first source program storage unit 202, the first target program storage unit 203, the first execution program storage unit 204, 2 source program storage unit 301 and the second target program storage unit 30
2 is searched for a program to be updated based on the version information of the program stored in (2).

The program access means 102 includes a first source program storage unit 202, a first target program storage unit 203, a first execution program storage unit 204, a second
Access to the source program storage unit 301 and the second target program storage unit 302.

The program translating means 103 translates a source program to create a target program.

The program combining means 104 combines the target programs to create an execution program.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of the above-mentioned program maintenance / updating apparatus. In the figure, a program search unit 101 refers to a dependency relationship storage unit 201 and uses a program access unit 102 to execute a first source program storage unit 202 and a first target program storage unit 20.
3, a first execution program storage unit 204, a second source program storage unit 301, a second target program storage unit 3
02, and searches for a program to be updated (step A1). As a result of the search, if there is a program to be updated, the update process is performed; otherwise, the process is terminated (step A2).

Next, an update process is distributed depending on whether the program to be updated is a target program (step A3).

If the program to be updated is a target program, the program translating means 103 causes the program access means 102 to execute the first source program storage unit 2.
02 or the source program in the second source program storage unit 301 is obtained and translated, and the created target program is stored in the first target program storage unit 203 (step A4).

If the program to be updated is not a target program, the program linking means 104 acquires the target program in the first target program storage unit 203 or the second target program storage unit 302 by the program access unit 102. The combined execution program is stored in the first execution program storage unit 204 (step A5).

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a specific example of the above operation. Referring to FIG. 3A, the target program O1 depends on the source program S1, and with reference to FIGS. 3B and 3C, the target program O1 is an older version program than the execution program S1. . At this time, a program update operation is performed.

The program search means 101 retrieves the version information of the target program O1 stored in the first target program storage section 103 and the second source based on the dependency stored in the dependency storage section 201. Program storage unit 30
The target program O1 is compared with the version information of the source program S1 stored in No. 1 and the target program O1 is selected as an update target program.

Next, the program translating means 103 obtains and translates the source program S1 from the second source program storage section 301, and replaces the created target program with the target program O1 in the first target program storage section 203.

The program maintenance / updating device operates according to a program stored in a recording medium (not shown) built in the control device 1. The program may be stored on a hard disk or a floppy disk, and may be loaded into a recording medium built in the control device 1 and executed when the program maintenance / update device is used.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a second embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, a program maintenance / updating device according to the present invention includes a control device 1a that operates under program control, and a first storage device 2a and a second storage device 3a that store information.

The first storage device 2a includes a dependency storage unit 2
01 and a first execution program storage unit 204. The first execution program storage unit 204 stores an execution program that can be updated.

The second storage device 3a has a second execution program storage section 303. Second storage device 3a
Is connected to the control device 1a by a communication line (not shown). The second execution program storage unit 303 stores an execution program.

The control device 1a includes a program search means 10
1, a program access unit 102, and a program replacement unit 105.

The program search means 101 checks the version information of the program stored in the first execution program storage section 204 and the second execution program storage section 303 while referring to the dependency relation storage section 201, and updates the version information. Search for the target program. Program access means 1
02 is the first execution program storage unit 204 and the second
To the execution program storage unit 303.
The program replacement means 105 replaces an execution program.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the above-described program maintenance / updating apparatus. In the figure, a program search unit 101 refers to a dependency relationship storage unit 201 and uses a program access unit 102 to execute a first execution program storage unit 204 and a second execution program storage unit 3.
03, and searches for a program to be updated (step A1). As a result of the search, if there is a program to be updated, the update process is performed; otherwise, the process is terminated (step A2).

If there is a program to be updated, the program replacement means 105
2, the execution program in the second execution program storage unit 204 is acquired and the first execution program storage unit 204 is acquired.
(Step B1).

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a specific example of the above operation. Referring to FIG. 6A, the execution program E1 depends on the execution program E2. Referring to FIGS. 6B and 6C, the execution program E1 is an older version program than the execution program E2. . At this time, a program update operation is performed.

The program retrieving means 101 retrieves the version information of the execution program E1 stored in the first execution program storage section 204 and the second execution program based on the dependency stored in the dependency storage section 201. Storage unit 303
Is compared with the version information of the execution program E2 stored in the storage device, and the execution program E1 is selected as the update target program.

Next, the program replacement means 105 acquires the execution program E2 from the second execution program storage section 303 and replaces it with the execution program E1 in the first execution program storage section 204.

The above-mentioned program maintaining / updating device operates by a program stored in a recording medium (not shown) built in the control device 1a. The program may be stored in a hard disk or a floppy disk, and may be loaded into a recording medium built in the control device 1a and executed when the program maintenance / updating device is used.

Further, it is possible to easily realize a program maintenance / updating apparatus in which the first and second embodiments are integrated. Further, the program recording medium can be similarly realized.

[0047]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a dependent program is located in a remote place, there is an effect that both a program developer and a user can easily access the program. The reason is that there is no need to be aware of the location of the program by using the program access means.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a specific example of the operation of the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a specific example of the operation of the second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Control device 2 1st storage device 3 2nd storage device 101 Program search means 102 Program access means 103 Program translation means 104 Program combination means 105 Program replacement means 201 Dependency storage part A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 B1 Processing Steps

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A storage device which stores a plurality of programs and has a plurality of storage devices arranged in a distributed manner, and determines a program to be maintained / updated on the basis of a dependency between programs stored in the storage device and version information. And a program maintenance / updating device for managing a program stored in the storage device according to the determination. 2. A dependency storage unit having a plurality of storage devices each storing and distributing a program, and storing a dependency relationship between the programs stored in the storage device; Program search means for searching for a program to be updated based on the version information of the program, program replacement means for updating the program searched by the program search means by program replacement, and based on requests from the program search means and the program replacement means. A program maintenance / updating apparatus, comprising: a program access unit for accessing a program. 3. A dependency storage unit having a plurality of storage devices each storing and distributing a program, and storing a dependency relationship between the programs stored in the storage device. Program search means for searching for a program to be updated based on the version information of the program, program translation means for updating the program searched by the program search means by program translation, and updating the program searched by the program search means by program combination A program maintenance / updating apparatus, comprising: a program combination unit; and a program access unit that accesses a program based on a request from the program search unit, the program translation unit, and the program combination unit. 4. A program maintenance / updating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said program retrieving means updates the program retrieved by said program retrieving means by program substitution, and a program which accesses the program based on a request from said program replacing means. A program maintenance / updating device characterized by including access means. 5. A storage device having a plurality of storage devices each storing and distributing a program, and searching for an update target program based on a dependency between programs stored in the storage device and program version information. A first step to update the program searched by the first step by program replacement; and a third step to access the program based on the request of the first step and the second step. And a program recording medium for a program maintaining / updating device. 6. A plurality of storage devices each storing and distributing a program, and searching for a program to be updated based on a dependency between programs stored in the storage device and program version information. A first step of updating the program searched by the first step by program translation; a fifth step of updating the searched program by the program combination by the first step; A program recording medium for a program maintaining / updating apparatus, comprising: a first step, a fourth step, and a sixth step of accessing a program based on a request of the fifth step. 7. The program recording medium according to claim 6, wherein the first step updates the searched program by program replacement, and accesses the program based on a request of the second step. A program recording medium for a program maintaining / updating device, comprising: a seventh step.