Patent ID: 6986135
Filing Date: 2006-01-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for creating and deploying an application comprising the steps of: (a) identifying environmental dependencies for the application in a target environment, the target environment and a source enviroment being part of a distributed comprising environment, the application comprising information and data; (b) defining an application definition comprising a list of application components to be deployed in the target environment; the application components being available in the source environment, and including at least one application entity; (c) creating a package definition comprising the application definition, packlet definition asscociated with the application entity, and deployment policy to control deployment of the information and data into the target environment; (d) executing instruction to create an application package according to the package definition; and (e) deploying the application from the source environment to target environment by installing the application package in the target environment in accordance with the package definition; and (f) defining an environment for creating a configuration definition; wherein the configuration definition is a structured document.