Application loading and visualization

• US 8,762,981 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2004
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Georgiev, Anton G., Tsiklovski, Radoslav S., Dimitrov, Dimiter G., Kovachka-Dimitrova, Monika M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhen, Li B
• Assistant Examiner(s): BODDEN, EVRAL E
• Application Number:
  US10/853,067
• Publication Number:
  US 20060041662A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,683 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 717/171
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

A system and method are described for performing application loading and visualization. In one embodiment, an application is accessed on a client to be deployed on the server. The client is in communication with machines having resources corresponding to the application. The application is then deployed on the server, and the deployed application on the server references a copy of the resources that already resides on the server.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

running a software application including a plurality of code sections embodied as Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition™

(J2EE) components including executable content, without having resources associated with the J2EE components, the software application running on a first computer system;

deploying, with a deploy tool operating on the first computer, a code section of the plurality of code sections, the code section being deployed referencing a resource, the deploying not including the referenced resource, the deploying being made to a J2EE server on a second computer system, the second computer system coupled with the first computer system via a network, the J2EE server on the second computer system having a deploy service configured to trigger an update of the deployed code section each time new resource information is added to the referenced resource residing at the second computer system, the deploy tool having a graphical user interface to facilitate selection of the code section for deployment and to reference the resource;

linking the deployed code section referencing the resource with the referenced resource by assigning a resource path to the deployed code section to dynamically access the referenced resource; and

during runtime, on the second computer system, dynamically updating the deployed code section by accessing the new resource information relating to the resource referenced by the deployed code section of the software application without restarting or redeploying the software application.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising periodically updating the resources on the second computer system to add the new resource information to the resources.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying, by the first computer system, the updating of the deployed code section of the software application via a viewer including a graphical user interface (GUI)-based viewer, or a Web-based viewer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the resource includes one or more of components, flies, directories, libraries, codes, and syntax.

5. A system comprising:

a client computer system with a processor configured to execute a software application including a plurality of code sections embodied as Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition™

(J2EE) components including executable content, without having resources associated with the J2EE components; and

a server computer system having a J2EE application server including a deploy service, the deploy service having a graphical user interface to facilitate selection of the code section for deployment and to reference the resource, and the deploy service to;

deploy a code section of the plurality of code sections, the code section being deployed referencing a resource, the deploying not including the referenced resource, the deploying being made on the server computer system in accordance with a deployment operation initiated at the client computer system, the server computer system coupled with the client computer system via a network;

link the code section referencing the resource with the referenced resource by assigning a resource path to the deployed code section to dynamically access the referenced resource; and

during runtime, dynamically update the deployed code section by accessing new resource information relating to the resource referenced by the deployed code section of the software application without restarting or redeploying the software application, wherein

the deploy service is further modified to trigger an update of the deployed code section on the server computer system each time the new resource information is added to the referenced resource.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the deploy service is further modified to periodically update the resources on the server computer system to add the new resource information to the resources.

7. The system of claim 5, further comprising a viewer for execution on the client computer system to display the updating of the deployed code section of the software application, the viewer including a graphical user interface (GUI)-based viewer or a Web-based viewer.

8. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to:

run a software application including a plurality of code sections embodied as Java 2Platform, Enterprise Edition™

(J2EE) components including executable content, without having resources associated with the J2EE components, the software application running on a first computer system along with a deploy tool having a graphical user interface to facilitate selection of a code section for deployment and to reference a resource;

deploy the code section of the plurality of code sections, the code section being deployed referencing the resource, the deploying not including the referenced resource, the deploying being made to a second computer system, the second computer system coupled with the first computer system via a network;

link the deployed code section referencing the resource with the referenced resource by assigning a resource path to the deployed code section to dynamically access the referenced resource; and

during runtime, on the second computer system, dynamically update the deployed code section by accessing new resource information relating to the resource referenced by the deployed code section of the software application without restarting or redeploying the software application, and to trigger an update of the deployed code section each time the new resource information is added to the referenced resource.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the machine to periodically update the resources on the second computer system to add the new resource information to the resources.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the machine to display the updating of the deployed code section of the software application via a viewer including a graphical user interface (GUI)-based viewer or a Web-based viewer, the viewer executing at the first computer system.