Patent ID: 8448164

Claim:
A service oriented architecture (SOA) computing system for the automatic deployment of at least one SOA-application onto at least one platform, the at least one SOA-application comprising one or more components, the computing system comprising: a non-transitory storage system that is configured to store an SOA registry that comprises: at least one SOA-application description being related to one or more platform-independent component descriptions describing the components of the at least one SOA-application; at least one platform-specific component description for each of the one or more platform-independent component descriptions, the at least one platform-specific component description comprising one or more requirements of the respective component on a target platform, the one or more requirements including names and/or version numbers of required platform components and at least one logical operator; and at least one platform descriptor comprising one or more properties of the at least one platform, wherein the one or more platform-independent component descriptions, the at least one platform-specific component descriptions and/or the at least one platform descriptors comprise a name and/or a type.