APPLICATION MULTI-VERSIONING IN A TRADITIONAL LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT

Operating an online transaction processing system to perform an application including a first module call by performing the following steps (not necessarily in the following order): (i) assigning a dedicated search path to the application, where the search path specifies an ordered set of location(s) for searching for module code, the set of location(s) includes at least a first dynamic module library and the first dynamic module library is ahead of any other locations which may be included in the dedicated search path; (ii) running the application through the transaction processing system; (iii) receiving the first module call, from the running of the application, specifying a requested module using a requested module name; and (iv) in response to the module call, locating the requested module based on the requested module name and the dedicated search path.