Patent ID: 7069270

Claim:
A method for migrating a single-instance application to a multiple-instance environment, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of: automatically creating a multiple-instance application by automatically linking a single-instance binary of the single-instance application to one or more libraries that include routines with logic designed for multiple-instance environments; wherein the single instance application was created by linking the single-instance binary to one or more libraries that include routines with logic designed for single-instance environments; automatically creating multiple-instance metadata that represents the structure of the multiple instance application; wherein the multiple instance metadata is created based on metadata that represents the structure of the single-instance application; importing into the multiple-instance application, data that was used by the single-instance application; configuring the multiple-instance environment for executing multiple instances of the multiple-instance application within the multiple-instance environment; and configuring the multiple instances of the multiple-instance application to form an application group.