Patent 12026488 was granted and assigned to Red Hat on July, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods and systems for transforming bytecodes using virtual artifacts are disclosed. In one aspect, a method is provided that includes receiving a build request to convert source code into a first bytecode. A first virtual artifact may be identified within the source code and it may be determined that a local repository does not store the first virtual artifact. A real artifact that corresponds to the first virtual artifact may be retrieved from a centralized repository. A bytecode transformation may be applied to the real artifact to generate a second bytecode and the second bytecode may be added to the first bytecode.