System and method for application deployment in a domain for a cluster

• US 7,519,964 B1
• Filed: 12/03/2003
• Issued: 04/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Islam, Akm N., Viswanath, Sridatta, Nevons, W. Byron Jr., Hulton, Micheal C., Kumar, Abhijit, Ebbs, Kenneth
• Primary Examiner(s): Kiss; Eric B
• Application Number:
  US10/726,447
• Time in Patent Office: 1,959 Days
• Field of Search: 717/140, 717/170, 717/175, 717/177
• US Class Current: 717/177
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/44 Encoding
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management

Abstract

A system and method for application deployment in a server cluster from a central domain. The method may include assembling a set of source code and related resource files on an administration server coupled to an application repository. The method may also include compiling the set of source code and related resource files into an application and storing the application in the application repository. The application may then be deployed onto a first subset of servers in a cluster of servers and executed on the subset of servers. In one embodiment, the method may further include storing a different version of the application in the application repository and deploying the different version of the application onto a second subset of servers separate from the first subset of servers. The different version of the application may then be executed on the second subset of servers.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

assembling files for an application;

compiling the files into an application on an administration server, wherein the administration server is coupled to a central application repository;

storing the application in the central application repository;

after successfully compiling the application on the administration server, deploying the application from the central application repository onto a plurality of servers in a cluster of servers;

starting the application on the plurality of servers;

storing a different version of the application in the central application repository;

deploying the different version of the application from the central application repository onto a plurality of servers in the cluster of servers, wherein the application and the different version of the application simultaneously execute on different servers in the cluster of servers; and

starting an older version of the application on a subset of servers such that the older version and a current version of the application simultaneously execute on different servers in the cluster of servers.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said assembling comprises assembling the files into a single archive file.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said files comprise a set of source code and related resource files for the application, the method further comprising validating that said compiling the files into the application has been performed without errors, wherein said validating is performed prior to performing said deploying the application to any of the plurality of servers in the cluster.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein deploying the different version of the application comprises:

stopping an instance of the application on a server;

loading the different version of the application on the server;

associating the instance of the application with the different version of the application on the server;

starting the instance of the different version of the application on the server.

5. A system comprising:

files for an application;

a plurality of servers in a cluster of servers;

an administration server connected to the cluster of servers, wherein the administration server for the cluster of servers is operable to;

compile the files into an application;

store the application in a central application repository connected to the administration server operable to store the application; and

after successfully compiling the application on the administration server, deploy the application from the central application repository onto the plurality of servers in the cluster;

wherein the plurality of servers are operable to start the application;

wherein the central application repository is operable to store a different version of the application;

wherein the administration server is operable to deploy the different version of the application onto a plurality of servers in the cluster of servers; and

wherein the plurality of servers are operable to simultaneously execute the application and the different version of the application.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the files are assembled in a single archive file.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein said files comprise a set of source code and related resource files for the application, and wherein the administration server is further operable to validate that the application has been compiled without errors prior to the application being deployed to any of the plurality of servers in the cluster.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the administration server is further operable to:

stop an instance of the application on a server;

load the different version of the application on the server;

associate the instance of the application with the different version of the application on the server;

start the instance of the different version of the application on the server.

9. A computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions computer-executable to implement a method comprising:

assembling files for an application;

compiling the files into an application on an administration server, wherein the administration server is coupled to a central application repository;

storing the application in the central application repository;

after successfully compiling the application on the administration server, deploying the application from the central application repository onto a plurality of servers in a cluster of servers;

starting the application on the plurality of servers;

storing a different version of the application in the central application repository;

deploying the different version of the application onto a plurality of servers in the cluster of servers, wherein the application and the different version of the application simultaneously execute on different servers in the cluster of servers; and

starting an older version of the application on a subset of servers such that the older version and a current version of the application simultaneously execute on different servers in the cluster of servers.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein said assembling comprises assembling the files into a single archive file.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein said files comprise a set of source code and related resource files for the application, and wherein the method further comprises validating that said compiling the files into the application has been performed without errors, wherein said validating is performed prior to performing said deploying the application to any of the plurality of servers in the cluster.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein deploying the different version of the application comprises:

stopping an instance of the application on a server;

loading the different version of the application on the server;

associating the instance of the application with the different version of the application on the server;

starting the instance of the different version of the application on the server.