Repository infrastructure for on demand platforms

• US 8,868,582 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2010
• Issued: 10/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Fitzer, Joachim, Specht, Juergen, Jin, Ye, Sattler, Juergen
• Primary Examiner(s): Bullock, Joshua
• Application Number:
  US12/861,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20120047139A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,520 Days
• Field of Search: 707/736, 707/758
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/252 between a Database Management System and a front-end application

Abstract

In an aspect there is provided a method. The method may include providing, at a repository, storage for a plurality of tenants, providing a plurality of layers, and providing a plurality of versions; and separating, based on the plurality of layers and the plurality of versions, data for each of the plurality of tenants, wherein during runtime one of the plurality of tenants corresponds to the plurality of layers and one of the plurality of versions. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including code which when executed by at least one processor provides operations comprising:

receiving, at an application programming interface of a repository, a request for a data object, wherein the data object is managed by the repository and stored by a service provider;

retrieving the data object based on metadata defining at least one of a name, a version, a solution, and a branch to identify the data object within a multi-tenant computing system serving a plurality of tenants; and

providing the retrieved data object,

wherein the data object comprises core software platform content, system content, and tenant content, wherein the core software platform content represents functionality that is not modifiable by the plurality of tenants, wherein the system content includes one or more core data objects that are modifiable by the tenant content, and wherein the tenant content includes data representative of a business process for at least one of the plurality of tenants.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the retrieving further comprises:

retrieving the data object from a file system defined for each tenant of the multi-tenant computing system, wherein the file system definition for each tenant is based on a layer-visible configuration.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the application programming interface comprises a maintenance application programming interface, a designtime application programming interface, and a runtime application programming interface, each of which interfaces a corresponding user interface and a repository engine including a core toolbox.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the data object is a customized solution provided to the users of a specific tenant, wherein the data object comprises a combination of software platform content, system content and tenant content of a specific tenant, and wherein the operations further comprise making the customized solution available only to users of the specific tenant.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the repository is configured to provide storage for core software platform content, system content and for a plurality of tenant contents, wherein the operations further comprise the runtime of the core software platform content creating the system content.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the repository is configured to provide a plurality of layers, and provide a plurality of versions, wherein the operations further comprise separating the tenant content for each of the plurality of tenants based on the plurality of layers and the plurality of versions.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein during runtime one of the plurality of tenants corresponds to the plurality of layers and one of the plurality of versions.

8. A method comprising:

receiving, at an application programming interface of a repository, a request for a data object, wherein the data object is managed by the repository and stored by a service provider;

retrieving the data object based on metadata defining at least one of a name, a version, a solution, and a branch to identify the data object within a multi-tenant computing system serving a plurality of tenants; and

providing the retrieved data object, wherein at least one of the receiving, the retrieving, and the providing are implemented on at least one processor,

wherein the data object comprises core software platform content, system content, and tenant content, wherein the core software platform content represents functionality that is not modifiable by the plurality of tenants, wherein the system content includes one or more core data objects that are modifiable by the tenant data object, and wherein the tenant content includes data representative of a business process for at least one of the plurality of tenants.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the retrieving further comprises:

retrieving the data object from a file system defined for each tenant of the multi-tenant computing system.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the application programming interface comprises a maintenance application programming interface, a design time application programming interface, and a runtime application programming interface, each of which interfaces a corresponding user interface and a repository engine including a core toolbox.