Patent ID: 9201639
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for providing service definition packages for use with a cloud computing environment, comprising: one or more computers including a cloud environment executing thereon; a platform component that is provided as an installable software suite within the cloud environment, and that supports self-service provisioning for enterprise applications; and one or more service definition packages, for use with the platform component, wherein each service definition package includes a plug-in for a particular service type, and defines, for a particular enterprise application component, how that particular enterprise application component is deliverable as that particular service type within the platform component; wherein the system parses each of the one or more service definition packages, and uses the plugin for that service definition package to provision a corresponding enterprise application as the service type associated with the plugin within the platform component; and wherein each plug-in operates to perform one or more actions selected from the group consisting of monitoring, managing, modifying and deleting, to one or more services instantiated from the particular service type associated with that plugin.