Oracle International Corporation

Jonathan A Bauer

Steven A Huberman

Andrew Bodge

Frederick H Carter

Guillaume Nicolas Vambenepe

Tools are provided to assist users of cloud computing systems to create, monitor, and debug the resource instances they need. Specifically, resource instances are created in a cloud computing system based on a blueprint that is provided to a blueprint processor. The blueprint declaratively defines the resources that the user needs to have created in the cloud. Based on the information contained in blueprint, the blueprint processor causes the cloud to orchestrate the creation of resource instances, doing so in parallel when possible, and to configure those resource instances as specified in blueprint. Techniques are described for generating a timeline to convey status during the deployment process, and for performing debugging operations.

Monitoring cloud resource objects during deployment of a blueprint

Executing a debugging operation during deployment of a blueprint within a cloud system

Methods and apparatus for user-directed, efficient comparisons of sets of objects. A user generally selects two sets of objects to be compared. The objects are, in general, hierarchically structured. The user may also specify criteria for selecting a desired subset of objects in the two sets of objects to be compared. In a first phase, the comparison process generates a tree containing nodes representative of each object selected to be compared; an object pair of the sets of objects being compared shares one tree node. Generally, an object pair comprises an object from each of the sets of objects being compared, and an object pair is what is compared. Container nodes are also created which represent folders of the objects being compared. A graphical representation of the tree, or an object view, is displayed as a graphical user interface display on a screen. Once the tree is generated containing nodes for each of the objects selected to be compared, the comparison process performs a comparison of each object pair. The user can select the order of comparison of the object pairs by manipulating the tree nodes in the graphical user interface display. As each object pair is compared, the comparison process generates a result view. As result view comprises the graphical representation of the tree previously generated, with the addition of representations of the result of each object pair comparison performed to that time. The result view, once generated, may be displayed as a graphical usr interface display on the screen.

Concise dynamic user interface for comparing hierarchically structured collections of objects

A database synchronizer facilitates computing systems which have client-side and server-side applications that share data in similar database structures, but which do not maintain a continuous connection to a single shared data source. In general, a database synchronizer is used to share data among many nodes on the computing system. The database synchronizer is used to synchronize the data in a central database for a particular client with the data on that client's intermittently-connected computer. Updates performed by either client or server are propagated to the other side when a connection is established and eventually from the server to other clients in the system.

Database Synchronizer

System for synchronizing shared data between computers

Database synchronizer

System for synchronizing data between computers using a before-image of

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