An update installer generates an update display for a user that allows the user to select updates to be applied to a computer system. Conflicts that arise because of application of the updates to the computer system are automatically resolved and the results of the conflict resolution are displayed.

A software package to be installed on a host system may be identified. A service of the host system that is unavailable during an installation of the software package on the host system may be identified where the installation changes a configuration of the service. A determine may be made as to whether the service that is unavailable during the installation of the software package on the host system is being used by a virtual machine (VM) that is associated with the host system. A notification may be provided in view of the determination of the service associated with the software package being used by the VM that is associated with the host system.

A method for adapting execution of an application on a mobile device may be performed by a mobile device including a processor and a memory. The method may include receiving an application context, a process context, and one other context. The method also includes analyzing at least one of the application context or the process context together with the one other context. The method also includes dynamically adapting execution of the application on the mobile device based on the analysis. Adapting execution of the application may include transferring processing related to the application to a backend server for processing.

An operationally monolithic application is provided, where the application resides in a first program address space of an application server. The application calls to an application component residing in a second program address space of the application server, the application component being built upon a framework of the operationally monolithic application. The operationally monolithic application loads at least a first library upon which it depends to invoke a first method, and the application component loads at least a second library upon which it depends to invoke a second method. The first and second libraries can co-exist on the application server despite being different versions of the same libraries.

A computer-implemented method for a service framework to develop application services, including: providing at least one module of a module stack to a client; determining if the provided module has been modified by the client; determining dependency data, at least including information on the dependency of further modules of the module stack from the provided module; and providing the dependency data of the other modules of the module stack from the provided module.

Hardware transactional memory (HTM) systems may guarantee that transactions commit without falling back to non-speculative code paths. A transaction that fails to progress may enter a power mode, giving the transaction priority when it conflicts with non-power-mode transactions. If, during execution of a power-mode transaction, another thread attempts, using a non-power-mode transaction, to access a shared resource being accessed by the power-mode transaction, it may be determined whether any actual data conflict occurs between the two transactions. If no data conflict exists, both transactions may continue to completion. If, however, a data conflict does exist, the power-mode transaction may deny the other transaction access to the shared resource. HTM systems may, in some embodiments, ensure that only one power-mode transaction exists at a time. In other embodiments, multiple, concurrent, power-mode transactions may be supported while ensuring that they access disjoint data sets.

A software package to be installed on a host system may be received. Services of the host system that are associated with the software package may be identified. Furthermore, a determination may be made if at least one service associated with the software package are currently used by at least one virtual machine associated with the host system. If at least one service is currently used by at least one virtual machine then a notification may be provided.

In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, systems and methods are provided for managing software component dependencies for applications using declarative constraint definitions, including enabling specification of constraint definitions using a declarative language to analyze and detect software component dependencies on one or more libraries that meet certain criteria, identifying and checking software component dependencies on the one or more libraries that violate the constraint definitions, and implementing an algorithm for analyzing applications and resolving software component dependencies on the one or more libraries that violate the constraint definitions.

Dynamic device enablement is provided. A device management application can be configured as a shell application and can be customized dynamically with plugins for devices that are connected to a computing device. The plugins can be defined within driver metadata of drivers for the devices. When the drivers are loaded, the device management application can access the driver metadata to dynamically determine which plugins to install and can then automatically install them.

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.