METHOD AND MECHANISM FOR OPTIMAL SCOPE EVALUATION IN SCOPE BASED HIERARCHICAL CONFIGURATION USING EVALUATED SCOPE PROPAGATION TECHNIQUE

摘要

A first and second local scope definition associated with a first and second node, respectively, in a hierarchical application tree are received where the hierarchical application tree includes application instructions at one or more nodes within the hierarchical application tree. A pruned version of the hierarchical application tree is determined including by propagating the first local scope definition from the first node to the second node, a child of the first node. Any nodes that are not relevant to a particular set of one or more local scope definitions at a given node are pruned in order to obtain a pruned version of the hierarchical application tree. A qualified application is generated using those application instructions at the unpruned nodes in the pruned version of the hierarchical application tree.