Patent ID: 8375382

Claim:
A non-transitory computer program product comprising: a computer recordable storage medium; program code, stored on the computer recordable storage medium, for receiving a service request containing a profile identifier, wherein the profile identifier specifies a profile to be used to create a required instance of at least one software component needed to fulfill the service request, wherein the required instance of the at least one software component is a complete installed version of an application server process in a particular runtime environment; program code, stored on the computer recordable storage medium, for identifying, from a database of profiles, a required profile that specifies a complete installation of the software component based on the requested profile identifier wherein the identified required profile is a data partition containing information associated with a complete installation of an application server process and all separately associated delta files that update the required profile and are associated to the profile; program code, stored on the computer recordable storage medium, for dynamically constructing a classpath for the required profile by preferentially utilizing files from the at least one delta file first, and then followed by files from the identified required profile; and program code, stored on the computer recordable storage medium, for building the particular application server process utilizing the classpath and allocating the particular application server process within the runtime environment.