Derived objects overview

Derived objects are created during builds with HCL VersionVault build tools. They are used for build avoidance and derived object sharing.

In a parallel-development environment, many DOs with the same path name might exist at the same time. For example, a source file msg.c is being developed on three branches concurrently, in three different views. VersionVault builds performed in those three views produce object modules named msg.obj. Each of these is a DO, and each has the same standard path name, for example, \proj\src\msg.obj.

In addition, each DO can be accessed with VersionVault extended names:

• Within each dynamic view, a standard Windows path name accesses the DO referenced by that view. This is another example of the VersionVault transparency feature.

  msg.obj

  The DO in the current view.

• You can use a view-extended path name to access a DO in any view:

  M:\drp\proj\src\msg.obj

  The DO in view drp.

  M:\R2_integ\proj\src\msg.obj

  The DO in view R2_integ.