Patent ID: 8817279

Claim:
An image forming apparatus having a restriction on an amount of resource usage for use in executing an application, the image forming apparatus comprising: an installation unit configured to install a composite application including a plurality of application modules as one application; a display unit configured to, if, when the composite application installed by the installation unit is activated, the plurality of application modules included in the composite application cannot be activated due to the restriction on the amount of resource usage, activate a predetermined application module in the plurality of application modules and display a symbol corresponding to the activated predetermined application module on a display portion of the image forming apparatus; and an image forming unit configured to execute image processing using an application module corresponding to the symbol, if the symbol displayed by the display unit is selected to instruct the image processing; wherein the plurality of application modules includes a common application module and an individual application module, the individual application module being used to communicate with a system connected to the image forming apparatus via a network, the common application module being used to display information representing that the individual application module communicates with the system, and the individual application module displaying, for a user, information representing that communication is made with the system using the common application module, and wherein, if the plurality of application modules included in the composite application cannot be activated due to the restriction on the amount of resource usage, the display unit activates both of the common application module and a predetermined individual application sub-module included in the individual application module, and displays a symbol corresponding to the activated predetermined individual application sub-module.