Patent ID: 7735097

Claim:
A method for implementing and using a deploy system for deployment of entities, comprising: deploying first components at a first container corresponding to a first software application associated with a first programming engine, the first components relating to the first software application; deploying second components at a second container corresponding to a second software application associated with a second programming engine, the second components relating to the second software application, the first and second components including deployment components to perform deployment services relating to the first and second software applications at an application server of a computer system; and establishing a communication interface to facilitate bi-directional communication between the first software application and the second software application such that the first software application accesses one or more of the deployed second components at the second container, and the second software application accesses one or more of the deployed first components at the first container, wherein the first container is a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) container, wherein the communication interface includes one or more of a deploy service application programming interface (API), a container API, and a deploy callback API, and wherein the deployment services include one or more of a start operation, a stop operation, a remove operation, and an update operation.