Patent ID: 8595751

Claim:
A method for operating a data processing arrangement on which an application platform is implemented and including a plurality of applications which are executable on the application platform by accessing at least one programming interface of the application platform, the method comprising: generating a plurality of operating system processes, running in parallel on the application platform, as a result of execution of at least two of the plurality of applications; and generating an inter-process user interface by a process connection module, by which inter-process user interface the plurality of operating system processes running in parallel collectively interact with a user of the data processing arrangement, wherein each of the plurality of applications includes a frontend layer and a backend layer, and wherein at least the frontend layer of each respective running of the plurality of applications is provided, in each case by the application platform, a container instance in which the frontend layer of the respective one of the plurality of applications runs in encapsulated form, each frontend layer, together with a respective associated container instance, forms a separate operating system process, the process connection module starting a relatively higher-order container instance for a first running of the plurality of applications, and said relatively higher-order container instance controlling the container instances assigned, in each case, to the other of the respective running ones of the plurality of applications, and the relatively higher-order container instance comprises the inter-process user interface and encapsulates the frontend layer of the first running application.