Decoupling microservices from a monolithic application

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020285451-A1
Application number	US-201916292744-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 5, 2019
Priority date	Mar 5, 2019
Publication date	Sep 10, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided is a system and method for extracting microservices from a monolithic application. The microservices are self-sufficient services which can be executed independently from the monolithic application. In one example, the method may include receiving an identification of a function from among a plurality of functions of a monolithic software application, extracting code of the identified function from the monolithic software application based on internal dependencies within code of the monolithic software application, generating a decoupled microservice based on the extracted code which executes the identified function independently from the monolithic software application, and storing the decoupled microservice for the identified function via a storage device.

First claim

1 . A computing system comprising:
a processor configured to
receive text input comprising a network address of a monolithic software application that has been uploaded to a host platform for execution, and a class name from among a plurality of classes of the monolithic software application,
extract code of a class identified by the text input of the class name and code of a plurality of dependent classes that depend from the class from a storage location of the monolithic software application identified from the network address based on internal dependencies within code of the monolithic software application, and
generate a decoupled microservice based on the extracted code which executes the identified function independently from the monolithic software application; and
a storage configured to store the decoupled microservice for the identified function.

2 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to receive input of a uniform resource location (URL) which identifies a web page of the monolithic software application.

3 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to receive, via a text input field of a user interface, the class name included in the monolithic software function.

4 . (canceled)

5 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to extract a copy of modules of code from an executable package of the monolithic software application corresponding to the identified function and ignore modules of code corresponding to other functions.

6 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to extract code modules from an executable package of the monolithic software application that have overlapping internal dependencies with another function from among the plurality of functions of the monolithic software application.

7 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the decoupled microservice comprises a separately executable software program configured to execute the identified class without depending on the monolithic software application.

8 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to deploy additional running instances of the decoupled microservice in response to receiving a scale-up request.

9 . A method comprising:
receiving text input comprising a network address of a monolithic software application that has been uploaded to a host platform for execution, and a class name from among a plurality of classes of the monolithic software application; extracting code of a class identified by the text input of the class name and code of a plurality of dependent classes that depend from the class from a storage location of the monolithic software application identified from the network address based on internal dependencies within code of the monolithic software application; generating a decoupled microservice based on the extracted code which executes the identified function independently from the monolithic software application; and storing the decoupled microservice for the identified function via a storage device.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the receiving comprises receiving a uniform resource location (URL) of a web page of the monolithic software application.

11 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the receiving comprises receiving, via a text input field of a user interface, the class name included in the monolithic software function.

12 . (canceled)

13 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the extracting comprises extracting a copy of modules of code from an executable package of the monolithic software application corresponding to the identified function while ignoring modules of code corresponding to other functions.

14 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the extracting comprises extracting code modules from an executable package of the monolithic software application that have overlapping internal dependencies with another function from among the plurality of functions of the monolithic software application.

15 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the decoupled microservice comprises a separately executable software program configured to execute the identified class without depending on the monolithic software application.

16 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising deploying additional running instances of the generated microservice in response to a scale-up request.

17 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which when executed cause a computer to perform a method comprising:
receiving text input comprising a network address of a monolithic software application that has been uploaded to a host platform for execution, and a class name from among a plurality of classes of the monolithic software application; extracting code of a class identified by the text input of the class name and code of a plurality of dependent classes that depend from the class from a storage location of the monolithic software application identified from the network address based on internal dependencies within code of the monolithic software application; generating a decoupled microservice based on the extracted code which executes the identified function independently from the monolithic software application; and storing the decoupled microservice for the identified function via a storage device.

18 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the extracting comprises extracting a copy of modules of code from an executable package of the monolithic software application corresponding to the identified function while ignoring modules of code corresponding to other functions.

19 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the extracting comprises extracting code modules from an executable package of the monolithic software application that have overlapping internal dependencies with another function from among the plurality of functions of the monolithic software application.

20 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the decoupled microservice comprises a separately executable software program configured to execute the identified class without depending on the monolithic software application.

21 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to extract the internal dependencies of the plurality of dependent classes from the code of the uploaded monolithic software application, and generate the decoupled microservice based on the extracted internal dependencies of the plurality of dependent classes.

22 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to extract a second class identified and code of a second plurality of dependent classes that depend from the second class, wherein the extracted code of the second plurality of dependent classes share at least one class in common with the extracted plurality of dependent classes of the class.

Assignees

• Sap Se

Inventors

• Agarwal Mehul

Classifications

• G06F8/36 Primary

  Software reuse · CPC title

• G06F8/60

  Software deployment · CPC title