APPLICATION MODEL FOR IMPLEMENTING COMPOSITE APPLICATIONS

• US 20160019030A1
• Filed: 08/05/2015
• Published: 01/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Shukla, Dharma, Bhandarkar, Aditya Gopal, Sagar, Akash Jeevan, Jawahar, Asad, Schmidt, Robert Brian
• Granted Patent: US 9,710,233 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/35 model driven
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management

Abstract

Embodiments are directed to providing an application model for implementing composite applications and to providing a declarative programming model and distributed runtime for creating and executing composite applications. In an embodiment, a computer system instantiates an application model. The application model allows users to compose composite applications. The composite applications are configured to run on both distributed computing systems and local computing systems. The computer system receives user input at the instantiated application model. The user input indicates which composite application components are to be used in conjunction with each other to form the composite application. The computer system also provides the composite application on a distributed computing system and/or a local computing system.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for providing an application model for implementing composite applications in a computer networking environment including a plurality of computing systems, the method comprising:

instantiating, by a computer system, the application model, wherein the application model allows users to compose composite applications, wherein the composite applications are configured to run on both distributed computing systems and local computing systems, the application model further allows the user to;

specify a plurality of services that are available for each composite application component, wherein the composite application component is run locally or distributed, and wherein the composite application has both a subset of locally run application components and a subset of distributed application components, the application model being configured to manage state replication and state consistency among application components, and

use the application model to implement both stateful components and stateless components in the same composite application, wherein the application model further allows composite application configuration for multiple levels of application tenants;

receiving, by the computer system, user input at the instantiated application model, wherein the user input indicates that one or more composite application components are used in conjunction with each other to form the composite application, and specifies which one or more of the plurality of services are to be used with each composite application component, wherein at least one of the composite application components, is run locally or distributed; and

providing, by the computer system, the composite application on at least one of a distributed computing system and a local computing system.