Patent ID: 7636782

Claim:
A computer system having a user interface to deploy a service, the user interface comprising: at least one display object to receive user configurations associated with a desired service topology and at least one property, wherein the at least one property includes at least one of private properties relating to a single installation package, general properties relating to multiple installation packages, user input properties, and application properties, and wherein the application properties further comprise at least one of server list properties to map applications to machines and static properties that are specified as part of an application definition; at least a second display object to select a machine configuration for execution of the service, wherein a schema is utilized to describe the components of the service such that topologies, servers, and server types are defined in accordance with the schema and wherein the service is at least one of a billing-and a provisioning service, and wherein the schema is utilized to describe at least one application of a service, the at least one application mapping to at least one installation package, the installation package describing the components of the service; and at least a third display object to deploy the service, the third display object distributes the components of the service to at least one machine based upon the schema, a selected topology and user input information, the at least one machine is at least one of a client and a server computer, the at least one of the client and the server computer operative in at least one of a local and a remote configuration.