Patent ID: 7984119
Filing Date: 2011-07-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for reconfiguring a configuration of an application server instance, comprising: installing, onto a server node, an application server instance and a template configuration tool, using one or more processors, the application server instance comprising a default installation configuration, and the template configuration tool comprising a template tool core and a set of registered template processor plug-ins; applying, via the template configuration tool, the template tool core to the default installation configuration to initiate an automated configuration process for the application server instance, the automated configuration process comprising: reconfiguring the application server instance by configuring the one or more components of the set of components of the default installation configuration with the set of registered template processor plug-ins, the registration file comprising a mapping between each registered template processor plug-in of the set of registered template processor plug-ins and one or more component templates of the set of component templates from the template file; saving a backup of the default installation configuration of the set of application server instance components prior to applying the template processor plug-ins; and restoring the backup of the default installation configuration of the set of application server instance components based on one of the template processor plug-ins failing to validly configure one of set of application server instance components.