Dynamic Linking for Browser UI Applications Across Library Versions
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Solution Overview
Problem
In multi-developer computing platforms, integrating applications with differing versions of the same libraries leads to inconsistencies and performance degradation, increasing development costs and resource usage due to static linking and inconsistent runtime environments.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a core library that manages and exposes different versions of libraries through an API layer, ensuring consistent access within a predetermined version range, and dynamically linking runtime libraries with applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple applications use different versions of the same libraries in a single iframe, then application diversity is improved, but runtime consistency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the library environment by creating separate iframes for different applications, allowing each application to have its own isolated library version while maintaining overall system consistency. This resolves the contradiction by dividing the shared library space into application-specific segments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a library management intermediary that mediates between multiple applications and the underlying library implementations. This intermediary layer handles version compatibility and ensures consistent runtime behavior across different applications using different library versions.
2Adaptability or versatility
If static linking is used for each library on a per-application basis, then application independence is improved, but application size and performance deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the library instances across multiple applications by allowing them to share common library code in the browser context. This combining approach maintains application independence through isolated execution environments while improving performance by avoiding redundant library loading and execution.
3Device complexity
If a single runtime environment is used for all applications, then system simplicity is improved, but version management flexibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic runtime environment that can adapt its configuration based on application requirements. The system dynamically determines which applications can share library versions and which require isolated environments, providing both simplicity and flexibility through adaptive decision-making.
4Reliability
If library versions are upgraded in the runtime environment, then library currency is improved, but application compatibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary compatibility checking before library upgrades by analyzing application dependencies and determining which applications can safely share upgraded library versions. This advance planning ensures that currency improvements do not compromise application compatibility.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for developing one or more applications associated with a browser-based user interface within a multi-developer computing platform employ one or more processors that receive a request to build one or more applications configured to run in a browser-based user interface on a client; determine whether the one or more applications are associated with a core library and one or more runtime libraries; and in response to determining that the one or more applications are associated with the core library and the one or more runtime libraries: determine one or more version numbers associated with the one or more runtime libraries; and in response to the determined one or more version numbers being within a predetermined range associated with the core library, dynamically link the one or more runtime libraries and the one or more applications.