Oracle Corporation
Consolidating and transforming metadata changes

Abstract:

Techniques for patching metadata content in a base repository are disclosed. Techniques can include customizing, by a computer including a processor and a memory, metadata content in an existing base repository, consolidating the metadata content customized in the existing base repository into a consolidated customization file, obtaining a new version of a base repository, transforming the metadata content in the consolidated customization file in accordance with the new version of the base repository and applying the transformed metadata content to the new version of the base repository. Transformation can be performed in response to metadata content being renamed, recreated and deleted.