Patent ID: 7401131

Claim:
A method for implementing a service container for supporting a global ecosystem of interrelated services in an enterprise, said enterprise comprising: a plurality of network domains, each of said plurality of network domains further comprising: a plurality of ubiquitous server machines, wherein the plurality of ubiquitous server machines is deployed as servers having a plurality of operating platforms; at least one service container, said at least one service container running on each of the plurality of ubiquitous server machines; and a plurality of interrelated services, each of the plurality of interrelated services running on any of the at least one service container; said method comprising: deploying a service container in a local network domain of the plurality of network domains, wherein the plurality of network domains comprises a plurality of non-local network domains in addition to the network domain; discovering a domain registrar, wherein the domain registrar is in the local network domain; registering the service container with the local domain registrar by passing information related to the service container to the local domain register, wherein said information related to the service container is visible to a client from the domain register; finding a global lookup in the enterprise, wherein the global lookup is outside the local network domain; and registering the service container with the global lookup by passing information related to the service container to the global lookup, wherein said information related to the service container is visible to a client from the global lookup.