Oracle International Corporation

Nazrul Islam

Rajiv Mordani

Abhijit Kumar

Yamini Kalyandurga Balasubramanyam

Sivakumar Melapannai Thyagarajan

Joseph DiPol

Christopher S Kasso

Jacob Lindholm

Bhavanishankara Sapaliga

Chanda Rani Patel

Peter Bower

Steven Liu

Timothy Quinn

Josh Dorr

Lawrence Feigen

Martin Mares

Chris Kasso

Kshitiz Saxena

Loren Konkus

Bhakti Mehta

Jyothi Dattatreya

Jennifer Galloway

Jeffrey West

Byron Nevins

Siraj Ghaffar

Joseph Di Pol

Romain Grecourt

Trilok Agarwal

Mitesh Meswani

Mohamed M Abdelaziz

Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo

Jagadish Ramu

Joshua Lee Dorr

Prasad Subramanian

Lenny Phan

Mark Nelson

Masoud Kalali

Andriy Zhdanov

Anissa Lam

Anthony Lai

Patrick Vinograd

Rehana Tabassum

Joseph Dipol

Qianhong Pan

Md Sazzad Hossain

Snjezana Sevo-Zenzerovic

Sandhya Kripalani

Shyamant Hegde

Madhavi Evani

A system and method for providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, enterprise software applications (e.g., Fusion Middleware applications) can be instantiated as services within a cloud platform, where they are then made accessible by other (e.g., customer) applications. In an embodiment, a service management engine (SME), in communication with an orchestration engine, can be used to provision services as one or more different service types, according to a service definition package (SDP). Service types can be instantiated according to the configuration of the cloud platform itself, and the contents of the SDP, including discovering, provisioning, and associating service types with system resources, to address different customer requirements.

System and method for providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting partitions in a multitenant application server environment. In accordance with an embodiment, an application server administrator (e.g., a WLS administrator) can create or delete partitions; while a partition administrator can administer various aspects of a partition, for example create resource groups, deploy applications to a specific partition, and reference specific realms for a partition. Resource groups can be globally defined at the domain, or can be specific to a partition. Applications can be deployed to a resource group template at the domain level, or to a resource group scoped to a partition or scoped to the domain. The system can optionally associate one or more partitions with a tenant, for use by the tenant.

System and method for supporting partitions in a multitenant application server environment

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting multi-tenancy in an application server, cloud, on-premise, or other environment, which enables categories of components and configurations to be associated with particular application instances or partitions. Resource group templates define, at a domain level, collections of deployable resources that can be referenced from resource groups. Each resource group is a named, fully-qualified collection of deployable resources that can reference a resource group template. A partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain, and contains one or more resource groups. Each resource group can reference a resource group template, to bind deployable resources to partition-specific values, for use by the referencing partition. A tenant of the application server or cloud environment can be associated with a partition, or applications deployed therein, for use by that tenant.

System and method for supporting multi-tenancy in an application server, cloud, or other environment

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting patching in a multi-tenant application server environment. The system can associate one or more partitions with a tenant, for use by that tenant, wherein a partition is a runtime and administrative subdivision or slice of a domain. A patching process can take advantage of high-availability features provided by an application server clustering environment, to apply patches in a controlled, rolling restart, which maintains a domain's ability to operate without interruption, or with zero downtime. The process can be used to automate complex or long running tasks, including preserving an unpatched or prior version of an application server, application, or other software component for possible rollback, or providing automatic reversion in the event of an unrecoverable error.

System and method for supporting patching in a multitenant application server environment

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing multitenancy support in a platform as a service or cloud computing environment. A platform component enables a service runtime to be shared by multiple tenants, by providing each tenant with a dedicated share or slice of a runtime instance. Each share/slice can be isolated from other shares/slices with respect to factors such as, for example, configuration, or quality of service. In accordance with an embodiment, during provisioning of a particular service runtime, a runtime definition associated with the service runtime can be utilized, for example by a service management engine, to configure the platform component to install one or more services within the service runtime. A particular service and its service runtimes can also be provisioned, within one or more runtime pools, according to a service runtime definition and placement configuration.

System and method for placement logic in a cloud platform environment

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing an end-to-end lifecycle in a multi-tenant application server environment. A lifecycle manager enables configuration integration across different components, for example application servers, traffic directors or load balancers, and database or other components, which may have their own partition-specific configurations. In accordance with an embodiment, the end-to-end lifecycle infrastructure includes a plugin-based mechanism which enables the different components within a multi-tenant application server environment to use a lifecycle plugin to provide their own component-specific lifecycle functionality. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes support for a tenant onboarding functionality, which can be used to onboard a tenant for a service to a particular partition. In accordance with an embodiment, the system supports the use of a global runtime within the multi-tenant application server environment.

System and method for use of a global runtime in a multitenant application server environment

System and method for providing an end-to-end lifecycle in a multitenant application server environment

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