Patent ID: 7467384

Claim:
A method, executing within a computer having a processor, comprising: receiving, at a publication service executing on a publication server and received from a publication application executing on the publication server, data associated with a plurality of function instances, each function instance associated with a resource at the publication server, at least two of the resources associated with the plurality of function instances being disparate types of resources, each of the plurality of function instances containing a resource metadata field and an activation field; receiving, at the publication service and received from a client, the client being a publication client, a request for resource information associated with at least one of the resources associated with at least one of the plurality of function instances; and in response to the request from the client, sending by the publication service and sent to the client, a one or more publish messages based on the received data, the one or more publish messages including the received data associated with the at least one of the resources associated with the at least one of the plurality of function instances.