SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING DEPLOYMENT IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT

• US 20150370549A1
• Filed: 06/23/2015
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: ZHANG, HONG, BAJAJ, ASEEM, INGALLS, GERALD, MOON, AMY, GOPALAKRISHNAN, SUMATHI
• Granted Patent: US 9,792,099 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57

Abstract

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting deployment in an application server environment. A resource, for example an application or library, can be deployed to different resource groups in different partitions in a domain, to a resource group template referenced by the different resource groups, or to a domain-level resource group. One or more additional deployment operations can be performed on a deployed resource by a partition administrator or a system administrator. A deployment API can be provided to enable a plurality to deployment clients to perform the deployment operations, and can be used to derive partition information and target information for the deployment operations when the information is not provided by a partition administrator. Different deployment scopes are defined to allow a same resource to be deployed in different partitions of a domain and outside any partition in the domain.

Claims

1. A system for supporting deployment in an application server environment, comprising:

one or more computers, including an application server environment executing thereon;

an application server domain, in the application server environment, that includes one or more resource group templates, one or more domain-level resource groups, and one or more partitions with one or more partition-level resource groups;

a deployment API that interacts with the domain to derive information for use in one or more of a plurality of deployment operations received at the domain;

wherein each of the plurality of deployment operations is performed on at least one member of the group consisting of one of the one or more resource group templates, one of the one or more domain-level resource groups, and one of the one or more partition-level resource groups; and

wherein each of the plurality of deployment operations is based on at least one of information received from an administrator and information derived from the deployment API.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the administrator is selected from the group consisting of a system administrator and a partition administrator.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of deployment operations include a deploy operation, an undeploy operation, a redeploy operation, an update operation, and a distribute operation.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the administrator uses one or more deployment clients to perform the plurality of deployment operations, wherein the one or more deployment clients are selected from the group consisting of a deployer application, deployment commands, JSR-88 API, JMX deployment API, ant tasks, Maven goals for deployment, an application server console, and a middleware web console.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the derived information includes information for one of the one or more partitions and information for one or more virtual targets associated with the one or more partition-level resource groups.

6. The system of claim 5, further comprising one or more resources to be deployed to at least one of the resource group templates, the domain-level resource groups, and the partition-level resource groups.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein each of the one or more resources is one of an application, and a library.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein a deployed resource in one of the one or more resource group templates becomes active in a member of the group consisting a partition-level resource group that references the resource group template and a domain-level resource group that references the resource group template, and wherein the deployed resource can be customized by a member from the group consisting a partition administrator and a system administrator.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein when the resource includes one or more modules, the one or more modules comprising a comma separated list.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein an instance of a runtime Mbean is created when a resource is deployed to a partition.

11. A method for supporting deployment in an application server environment, comprising:

receiving, at an application server domain in an application server environment executing on one or more computers, a plurality of deployment operations, wherein the domain includes one or more resource group templates, one or more domain-level resource groups, and one or more partitions with one or more partition-level resource groups;

deriving, using a deployment API that interacts with the domain, information for use in one or more of the plurality of deployment operations received at the domain; and

performing, based on information specified by an administrator, each of the plurality of deployment operations on at least one member of the group consisting of one of the one or more resource group templates, one of the one or more domain-level resource groups, and one of the one or more a partition-level resource groups.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the administrator is selected from the group consisting of a system administrator, and a partition administrator.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of deployment operations include a deploy operation, an undeploy operation, a redeploy operation, an update operation, and a distribute operation.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the administrator uses at least one deployment client to perform the deployment operations, wherein the at least one deployment client is selected from the group consisting of a deployer application, deployment commands, JSR-88 API, JMX deployment API, ant tasks, Maven goals for deployment, an application server console, and a middleware web console.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the derived information includes information for a partition and information for one or more virtual targets associated with the resource groups in the partition.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising

one or more resources to be deployed to at least one location from the group of locations consisting of one of the one or more resource group templates, one of the one or more domain-level resource groups, and one of the one or more partition-level resource groups.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein each of the resources one of an application and a library.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein a deployed resource in a resource group template becomes active in a member of the group consisting a resource group that references the resource group template and a domain-level resource group that references the resource group template, and wherein the deployed resource can be customized by a member from the group consisting a partition administrator and a system administrator.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein when the resource includes one or more modules, the modules comprising a comma separated list.

20. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:

receiving, at an application server domain in an application server environment executing on one or more computers, a plurality of deployment operations, wherein the domain includes one or more resource group templates, one or more domain-level resource groups, and one or more partitions with one or more partition-level resource groups;

deriving, using a deployment API that interacts with the domain, information for use in one or more of the plurality of deployment operations received at the domain; and

performing, based on information specified by an administrator, each of the plurality of deployment operations on at least one member of the group consisting of one of the one or more resource group templates, one of the one or more domain-level resource groups, and one of the one or more a partition-level resource groups.