Runtime optimizing applications for a target system from within a deployment server

• US 20060143601A1
• Filed: 12/28/2004
• Published: 06/29/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Reich, David E., Concha, Fernando
• Granted Patent: US 9,535,679 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/170
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/64 Retargetable

Abstract

A deployment server can include a profile data store, a generic application data store, and an optimizer. The profile data store can contain a plurality of attributes for devices and associate different optimization parameters or optimization routines to each of the stored attributes. The generic application data store can contain at least one generic application written in a device independent fashion. The optimizer can receive application requests from an assortment of different requesting devices and can dynamically generate device-specific applications responsive to received requests. For each requesting device, the optimizer can determine attributes of a requesting device, utilize the profile data store to identify optimization parameters or optimization routines for the requesting device, and generate a device-specific application based upon data from the profile data store and based upon a generic application retrieved from the generic application data store.

Claims

1. A computerized method for optimizing applications comprising the steps of:

receiving a request from a client for an application;

matching the client with at least one previously stored profile;

determining attributes specific to the client based upon the profile;

dynamically generating a client-optimized application based upon the determined attributes and a generic version of the application; and

conveying the client-optimized application to the client.

2. The computerized method of claim 1, comprising the steps of:

building at least one script based upon the determined attributes; and

processing the at least one script within an optimizer engine configured to remove unneeded classes, methods, and fields from the generic version of the application, wherein the client-optimized application is generated by the optimizer engine.

3. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the application is a JAVA programming language application, and the client-optimized application is written in bytecode, wherein the generating step pre-verifies the generated bytecode executables at link time.

4. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

identifying a hardware configuration of a device upon which said client is hosted, wherein the matching step is based upon the hardware configuration.

5. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

responsive to the receiving step, dynamically analyzing the client to determine capabilities of the client, wherein the matching step utilizes the determined capabilities.

6. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

identifying at least one software routine that is to be bundled with the client-optimized application so that the client is able to execute the client-optimized application; and

bundling the identified at least one software routine with the client-optimized application, wherein the conveying step conveys a bundle that includes the identified at least one software routine and the client-optimized application to the client.

7. The computerized method of claim 6, further comprising the step of:

determining based upon at least one of the request and the profile that a delivered application is to be presented in accordance with a designated delivery format, wherein the bundling step adheres to the designated delivery format.

8. The computerized method of claim 7, wherein the designated delivery format is the JAVA ARCHIVE (JAR) format.

9. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

sending the generic version of the application to a deployment server from a software development computer, wherein the deployment server performs said receiving, matching, determining, generating, and said conveying steps.

10. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the computerized method is an on-demand software deployment method performed in context of an integrated development environment for creating, testing, and deploying e-business applications to mobile and wireless devices.

11. A machine-readable storage having stored thereon, a computer program having a plurality of code sections, said code sections executable by a machine for causing the machine to perform the steps of:

receiving a request from a client for an application;

matching the client with at least one previously stored profile;

determining attributes specific to the client based upon the profile;

dynamically generating a client-optimized application based upon the determined attributes and a generic version of the application; and

conveying the client-optimized application to the client.

12. The machine-readable storage of claim 11, comprising the steps of:

building at least one script based upon the determined attributes; and

processing the at least one script within an optimizer engine configured to remove unneeded classes, methods, and fields from the generic version of the application, wherein the client-optimized application is generated by the optimizer engine.

13. The machine-readable storage of claim 11, further comprising the step of:

responsive to the receiving step, dynamically analyzing the client to determine capabilities of the client, wherein the matching step utilizes the determined capabilities.

14. The machine-readable storage of claim 11, further comprising the steps of:

identifying at least one software routine that is to be bundled with the client-optimized application so that the client is able to execute the client-optimized application; and

bundling the identified at least one software routine with the client-optimized application, wherein the conveying step conveys a bundle that includes the identified at least one software routine and the client-optimized application to the client.

15. The machine-readable storage of claim 11, wherein the computerized method is an on-demand software deployment method performed in context of an integrated development environment for creating, testing, and deploying e-business applications to mobile and wireless devices.

16. A deployment server comprising:

a profile data store that stores a plurality of attributes for devices and associates different optimization parameters or optimization routines to each of the stored attributes;

a generic application data store that stores at least one generic application written in a device independent fashion; and

an optimizer configured to receive application requests from an assortment of different requesting devices and to dynamically generate a device-specific applications responsive to received requests, for each requesting device said optimizer being configured to determine attributes of a requesting device, utilize said profile data store to identify optimization parameters or optimization routines for the requesting device, and generate a device-specific application based upon data from the profile data store and based upon a generic application retrieved from the generic application data store.

The deployment server of claim 16, wherein said deployment server is a component of an integrated development environment for creating, testing, and deploying e-business applications to mobile and wireless devices.

17. The deployment server of claim 16, wherein said optimizer is configured to remove unneeded classes, methods, and fields from the generic application when generating the device-specific application.

18. The deployment server of claim 16, further comprising

an analyzer configured to dynamically analyze the capabilities of a request issuing device upon receiving a request, wherein analyzed capabilities determine said attributes of the requesting device.

19. The deployment server of claim 16, further comprising:

a bundler configured to identity machine-readable code that is to be bundled with the device-specific application in order for the device-specific application to be executable upon the device and to subsequently bundle the identified machine-readable code with the device-specific application, wherein the resulting bundle is provided to the device in response to an issued application request.