Template integration

• US 20070157172A1
• Filed: 12/30/2005
• Published: 07/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Zenz, Ingo, Kilian, Frank, Semerdzhiev, Krasimir
• Granted Patent: US 7,954,087 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/121
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

A system and method are provided for integrating configuration templates. Usage-based configuration templates are created. The configuration templates are integrated into a configuration structure by assigning system instances to the configuration templates based on the usage of each of the system instances. The system instances are associated with one or more systems coupled with the configuration structure.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

creating usage-based configuration templates; and

integrating the configuration templates into a configuration structure by assigning system instances to the configuration templates based on usage of each of the system instances, wherein the system instances are associated with one or more systems coupled with the configuration structure.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

inheriting default configuration information to facilitate the creating of the usage-based configuration templates.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

overwriting the default configuration information-based settings according to one or more usages assigned to the configuration templates.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the creating of the usage-based configuration templates is performed at an archive, the archive including a template software delivery archive.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the usage-based configuration templates are based on the one or more usages of the system instances, the one or more usages include one or more of end point usage, portal+KM usage, minimal instance, and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) developer usage.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

customizing the configuration templates to be system-independent by configuring system dependencies via dynamic configuration, the dynamic configuration including one or more of parameterized settings, computed settings, and value links.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

moving one or more of the configuration templates from one system to another system of the one or more systems.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration templates comprises one or more of the following configurations:

instance layout configurations, virtual machine (VM) configurations, kernel configurations, service settings configurations, application configurations, and runtime-filter configurations.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

deploying the configuration templates from the archive to a configuration database.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

activating the configuration templates once the configuration templates are deployed at the configuration database.

11. A system comprising:

a customization module to create usage-based configuration templates; and

an integration module to integrate the configuration templates into a configuration structure by assigning system instances to the configuration templates based on usage of each of the system instances, wherein the system instances are associated with one or more systems coupled with the configuration structure.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

a deployment tool to deploy the configuration templates from an archive to a configuration database, the archive including a template software delivery archive.

13. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

an activation tool to activate the configuration templates once the configuration templates are deployed at the configuration database.

14. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

an API to provide access to the configuration templates, wherein each of the configuration templates comprises an extensible markup language (XML) file.

15. An apparatus comprising:

means for creating usage-based configuration templates; and

means for integrating the configuration templates into a configuration structure by assigning system instances to the configuration templates based on usage of each of the system instances, wherein the system instances are associated with one or more systems coupled with the configuration structure.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, further comprising:

means for inheriting default configuration information to facilitate the creating of the usage-based configuration templates

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

create usage-based configuration templates; and

integrate the configuration templates into a configuration structure by assigning system instances to the configuration templates based on usage of each of the system instances, wherein the system instances are associated with one or more systems coupled with the configuration structure.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the sets of instructions which, when executed by the machine, further cause the machine to:

inherit default configuration information to facilitate the creating of the usage-based configuration templates.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the sets of instructions which, when executed by the machine, further cause the machine to:

overwrite the default configuration information-based settings according to one or more usages assigned to the configuration templates.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the sets of instructions which, when executed by the machine, further cause the machine to:

customize the configuration templates to be system-independent by configuring system dependencies via dynamic configuration, the dynamic configuration including one or more of parameterized settings, computed settings, and value links.