Patent ID: 8010942

Claim:
A method for designing a service comprising a plurality of service applications, the method comprising: displaying via a graphical user interface a plurality of classes and a plurality of class definitions for each class of the plurality of classes respectively; selecting a first class of the plurality of classes to classify a first application of the plurality of service applications; displaying an availability definition associated with the first class; prompting a user to confirm the selection of the first class based on the availability definition associated with the first class; if the selection of the first class is confirmed, generating and displaying a design profile indicating a plurality of resources required for the first class; and if the selection of the first class is not confirmed, displaying via the graphical user interface the plurality of classes and the plurality of class definitions for each class of the plurality of classes respectively; wherein the instructions, when executed by the processing system, further direct the processing system to display via the graphical user interface the plurality of class definitions for each combination of the plurality of classes and the plurality of aspects.