Patent ID: 8583610

Claim:
A computer-executable method comprising: extending a plurality of manageability capabilities of manageable information technology (IT) resources, the resources including a first object representing a manageable resource playing a role of a subject (subject) and one or more additional objects each playing a role of an aspect (aspects), the extending comprising: associating, utilizing an “aspect of” association, a subject and the one or more aspects, wherein the “aspect of” association establishes an overall manageability function for the subject and the aspects as a logical composition of a plurality of manageability capabilities, and wherein each aspect is a separate object from the subject; providing the manageability capabilities using one or more distinct implementation classes that support a specific role, and that support management-discipline related aspects and behaviors needed by each of a plurality of resource management applications that manage the manageable resource, wherein the subject includes a subject lifecycle and the one or more aspects have an aspect life cycle that is bounded maximally by the subject lifecycle of the subject; and destroying the aspects when the subject is destroyed.