8. The non-transitory machine readable storage of claim 6 , wherein the determining step comprises the steps of: identifying a set of dependent components for the application component; and, further identifying a set of sub-dependent components for at least one of said dependent components.
6. A non-transitory machine readable storage having stored thereon a computer program for generating an installation script for installing an application component to a specific target platform, the computer program comprising a routine set of instructions when executed cause the machine to perform the steps of: retrieving a semantic model for the application component from a communicatively coupled repository of semantic models for interdependent ones of application components, the semantic model including a set of individual listings formatted within a markup language with different interdependent ones of application components being specified according to a respective network addressing scheme, the set of individual listings comprising a listing of component relationships and a listing of target platform requirements specifying a minimum requisite type and a level of resources required for operation of the application component on a target platform; determining from the listing of component relationships from the set of individual listings in said semantic model, a set of dependent components upon which the application component depends that are required to be present in the specific target platform; further determining from the listing of target platform requirements from the set of individual listings in said semantic model, a set of resource requirements required to be met by the specific target platform; and, mapping said set of dependent components and said set of resource requirements into platform specific instructions in a platform specific installation script.