US Patent 7607126 System and method for external override of annotations

A deployable application component can be configured via external annotation overrides at runtime without having to restart the component. An annotation/manifest can be populated to the corresponding application component at build time. The application component can then be configured and changes can be saved as annotation override into an external descriptor in XML format at deploy time. Such external descriptor can then be distributed, parsed, and validated at runtime to configure/update the deployed application component upon receiving notification of deployment changes.