Release and management of composite applications on PAAS

US9712607B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Paula K. Austel · Somers, US
• Han Chen · White Plains, US
• Thomas A. Mikalsen · Cold Spring, US
• Isabelle M. Rouvellou · New York, US
• Upendra Sharma · New Delhi, IN
• Ignacio Silva-Lepe · Putnam Valley, US
• Revathi Subramanian · San Diego, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 24, 2015
• Grant date: Jul 18, 2017
• Expiry date: Sep 25, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/63
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A solution descriptor comprises a set of component workload units, a workload unit describing a deployable application component with application binary, configuration parameters and dependency declarations. An environment descriptor specifies a set of target platforms and plugins in an execution environment. A deployer interprets the solution descriptor and the environment descriptor, and generates a list of tuples comprising compatible workload-plugin-platform combinations. The deployer determines an execution order for the list of tuples, and invokes the plugins in the list of tuples in the execution order, wherein each of the plugins executes a corresponding compatible workload on a corresponding compatible target platform specified in the list of tuples.