Each installable summary contains one or more specification objects for each version in the software registry. Each object is represented as an InstallableSpec component. At station startup, this service starts a thread that scans the software registry and populates the SoftwareContainer.

Direct children of the SoftwareContainer are summary objects (InstallableSummary components) for named, typed software files (for example, file type module named “baja”). For each summary object, there is a specification object (InstallableSpec components) for each version in the registry.

Apart from these summary children, the SoftwareContainer has but a single frozen property: loaded—a boolean slot that indicates if the startup thread has finished scanning the registry (by default, it is hidden).

Your key interface to the SoftwareContainer is its default view: the Supervisor Software Manager.