TECHNIQUES FOR RAPID DEPLOYMENT OF SERVICE ARTIFACTS

• US 20110161915A1
• Filed: 04/28/2010
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Annadi, Thirupathi reddy, Kalapatapu, Raghavateja, Srinivasamoorthy, Arvind, Kola, Purushotham, Xie, Nan, Garimella, Annaji, Craig, Mark James Glenn, Sankaran, Ravindran
• Granted Patent: US 8,527,985 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/101
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment

Abstract

A framework (referred to herein as Application Integration Architecture, or AIA) that formalizes and orchestrates activities in an SOA development lifecycle. In one set of embodiments, AIA can capture development-related information in a shared data store and cause the information to flow in an automated or semi-automated manner from one lifecycle phase to the next as the lifecycle progresses. This information flow can, in turn, facilitate automations at each lifecycle phase for the responsible stakeholders (e.g., solution architects, developers, installation developers, etc.), thereby enforcing SOA best practices, enhancing development productivity, and ensuring the quality of the final SOA deliverables.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

retrieving, by a computer system, a deployment plan that specifies one or more software services to be deployed as part of an SOA application;

retrieving, by the computer system, a deployment properties file that specifies one or more target servers for deploying the one or more software services; and

automatically deploying, by the computer system, the SOA application based on the deployment plan and the deployment properties file.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the deployment plan is generated by:

storing a functional representation of the SOA application in a shared data store, the functional representation including a set of business tasks;

collecting metadata pertaining to a software service that fulfills a business task in the set of business tasks; and

generating the deployment plan based on the functional definition and the metadata.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the storing, collecting, generating, and automatically deploying are performed during different lifecycle phases of the SOA application.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving, from a user, one or more customizations to the deployment plan; and

modifying the deployment plan based on the one or more customizations prior to automatically deploying the SOA application.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the deployment plan is expressed in Extensible Markup Language (XML), and wherein the one or more customizations include one or more custom XML tags.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the one or more customizations include one or more pre-deployment or post-deployment actions.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the deployment plan further specifies one or more artifacts associated with the one or more software services.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the deployment plan further specifies one or more configurations associated with the one or more software services.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more target servers include a target application server and a target database server.

10. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon program code executable by a computer system, the program code comprising:

code that causes the computer system retrieve a deployment plan that specifies one or more software services to be deployed as part of an SOA application;

code that causes the computer system to retrieve a deployment properties file that specifies one or more target servers for deploying the one or more software services; and

code that causes the computer system to automatically deploy the SOA application based on the deployment plan and the deployment properties file.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 wherein the deployment plan is generated by:

storing a functional representation of the SOA application in a shared data store, the functional representation including a set of business tasks;

collecting metadata pertaining to a software service that fulfills a business task in the set of business tasks; and

generating the deployment plan based on the functional definition and the metadata.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the storing, collecting, generating, and automatically deploying are performed during different lifecycle phases of the SOA application.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 wherein the program code further comprises:

code that causes the computer system to receive, from a user, one or more customizations to the deployment plan; and

code that causes the computer system to modify the deployment plan based on the one or more customizations prior to automatically deploying the SOA application.

14. A system comprising:

a processing component configured to;

retrieve a deployment plan that specifies one or more software services to be deployed as part of an SOA application;

retrieve a deployment properties file that specifies one or more target servers for deploying the one or more software services; and

automatically deploy the SOA application based on the deployment plan and the deployment properties file.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the deployment plan is generated by:

storing a functional representation of the SOA application in a shared data store, the functional representation including a set of business tasks;

collecting metadata pertaining to a software service that fulfills a business task in the set of business tasks; and

generating the deployment plan based on the functional definition and the metadata.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the storing, collecting, generating, and automatically deploying are performed during different lifecycle phases of the SOA application.

17. The system of claim 14 where the processing component is further configured to:

receive, from a user, one or more customizations to the deployment plan; and

modify the deployment plan based on the one or more customizations prior to automatically deploying the SOA application.