Method and system for container-managed configuration and administration

• US 20070073851A1
• Filed: 09/28/2005
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Stoyanova, Dimitrina, Zubev, Alexander, Savchenko, Vladimir, Angelov, Dimitar, Baikov, Chavdar
• Granted Patent: US 7,673,028 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/084 Configuration by using pre-existing information, e.g. using templates or copying from other elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5083 wherein the managed service relates to web hosting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A method and system for container-based configuration and administration. In one embodiment, a configuration file is created at a first location. The configuration file is duplicated into a duplicate configuration file, which is placed at a second location.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

creating a configuration file at a first location;

duplicating the configuration file to create a duplicate configuration file; and

placing the duplicate configuration file at a second location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first location comprises a web services/web services client application at an application server, the application server including a web application server.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second location comprises a web services/web services client container at the web application server.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising unifying a web services configuration file and a web services client configuration file to create the configuration file.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising accessing the duplicate configuration file in response to a request for reconfiguring the duplicate configuration file.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising reconfiguring the duplicate configuration file at the second location, and reloading the duplicate configuration file at the second location.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the duplicating of the configuration file into the duplicate configuration file comprises one or more of creating a file corresponding to the common configuration file, copying the common configuration file, and cloning the common configuration file.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the duplicating of the configuration file further comprises:

identifying properties of the configuration file, the properties including one or more of properties, components, elements, interfaces and modules; and

duplicating the configuration file using the identified properties.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a mapping system to duplicate the configuration file, the mapping system to create a model having direct mapping of one or more of the following:

a Web Service Description Language (WSDL) model, a WSDL interface mapping model, a schema to Java mapping model, and a configuration model.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising generating a duplication module to duplicate the configuration file into the duplicate configuration file.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising generating a placing module to place the duplicate configuration file at the second location.

12. A system comprising:

a first location having a configuration file;

a duplication module to duplicate the configuration file into a duplicate configuration file; and

a placing module to place the duplicate configuration file at a second location.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the first location comprises a web services/web services client application and the second location comprises a web services/web services client container.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the web services/web services client application and the web services/web services client container reside at an application server, the application server including a web application server residing at a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) engine.

15. The system of claim 12, further comprising tools to provide access to the duplicate configuration file.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the tools comprise configuration tools, the configuration tools generated by unifying web services tools and web services client tools.

17. A machine-readable medium having stored thereon data representing sets of instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

create a configuration file at a first location;

duplicate the configuration file to create a duplicate configuration file; and

place the duplicate configuration file at a second location.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the sets of instructions which, when executed by the machine, further cause the machine to generate a mapping system to duplicate the configuration file, the mapping system to create a model having direct mapping of one or more of the following:

a Web Service Description Language (WSDL) model, a WSDL interface mapping model, a schema to Java mapping model, and a configuration model.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the sets of instructions which, when executed by the machine, further cause the machine to generate a duplication module to duplicate the configuration file into the duplicate configuration file.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the sets of instructions which, when executed by the machine, further cause the machine to generate a placing module to place the duplicate configuration file at the second location.