Application model for implementing composite applications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016019030-A1
Application number	US-201514818748-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 5, 2015
Priority date	Dec 15, 2010
Publication date	Jan 21, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Embodiments are directed to providing an application model for implementing composite applications and to providing a declarative programming model and distributed runtime for creating and executing composite applications. In an embodiment, a computer system instantiates an application model. The application model allows users to compose composite applications. The composite applications are configured to run on both distributed computing systems and local computing systems. The computer system receives user input at the instantiated application model. The user input indicates which composite application components are to be used in conjunction with each other to form the composite application. The computer system also provides the composite application on a distributed computing system and/or a local computing system.

First claim

We claim:

1 . A computer-implemented method for providing an application model for implementing composite applications in a computer networking environment including a plurality of computing systems, the method comprising:
instantiating, by a computer system, the application model, wherein the application model allows users to compose composite applications, wherein the composite applications are configured to run on both distributed computing systems and local computing systems, the application model further allows the user to:
specify a plurality of services that are available for each composite application component, wherein the composite application component is run locally or distributed, and wherein the composite application has both a subset of locally run application components and a subset of distributed application components, the application model being configured to manage state replication and state consistency among application components, and
use the application model to implement both stateful components and stateless components in the same composite application, wherein the application model further allows composite application configuration for multiple levels of application tenants;
receiving, by the computer system, user input at the instantiated application model, wherein the user input indicates that one or more composite application components are used in conjunction with each other to form the composite application, and specifies which one or more of the plurality of services are to be used with each composite application component, wherein at least one of the composite application components, is run locally or distributed; and providing, by the computer system, the composite application on at least one of a distributed computing system and a local computing system.

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Shukla Dharma
• Bhandarkar Aditya Gopal
• Sagar Akash Jeevan
• Jawahar Asad
• Schmidt Robert Brian

Classifications

• G06F8/71 Primary

  Version control (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57); Configuration management · CPC title

• G06F8/36

  Software reuse · CPC title

• G06F8/35

  model driven · CPC title

• G06F8/20 Primary

  Software design · CPC title

• G06F8/70

  Software maintenance or management · CPC title