Oracle International Corporation

Bea Systems, Inc.

Peter Bower

Rajiv Mordani

Nazrul Islam

Abhijit Kumar

Lawrence Feigen

Timothy Quinn

Joseph DiPol

Paul Ferwerda

Christopher S Kasso

Joseph Di Pol

Byron Nevins

Juan Li

Craig Perez

David A Guy

Rehana Tabassum

William S Hopkins

Jeff J Tancill

Richard P Mousseau

Rajendra Inamdar

Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo

Sandeep Shrivastava

Yamini Kalyandurga Balasubramanyam

Franklin Fulton Simpson

Krishnakumar Sriramadhesikan

Martin Mares

Stephen Hess

R Sean Lindsay

Ryan LeCompte

Michal Gajdos

Md Sazzad Hossain

Krishna Sriramadhesikan

Pavel Bucek

Marek Potociar

Petr Janouch

Qianhong Pan

David Guy

Jeff Tancill

Will Hopkins

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 dynamic security configuration in a multitenant application server environment. Common configuration changes required for partition level security can be made without requiring a server restart, such as for example, adding a new security realm for a partition; deleting an existing realm; changing the configuration on an existing realm; adding or removing a security provider to a realm; or changing the configuration of a security provider. In accordance with an embodiment, also described herein is a system and method for supporting dynamic reconfiguration in a multitenant application server environment. Attributes of partition management components, for example managed beans (MBeans) and child MBeans contained within a partition, can be made dynamic and annotated accordingly, so that a restart of servers is not required for configuration changes to those attributes for a particular partition.

System and method for dynamic reconfiguration in a multitenant application server environment

A system and method for supporting configuration of dynamic clusters in an application server environment. The method can begin with providing, at one or more computers, including an application server environment executing thereon, a plurality of deployable resources which can be used within the application server environment, and one or more partitions, wherein each partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain, wherein the system can associate one or more partitions with a tenant, for use by the tenant. The method can further provide a dynamic cluster for use by the one or more partitions, the dynamic cluster comprising an initial number of servers running within the dynamic cluster. The method can then receive, at an administration server to receive, a command; and then configure, via an API, the dynamic cluster.

System and method for supporting configuration of dynamic clusters in a multitenant application server environment

System and method for dynamic security configuration in a multitenant application server environment

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing security in a multitenant application server environment. In accordance with an embodiment, per-partition security configuration includes: per-partition security realm (including configuration for authentication, authorization, credential mapping, auditing, password validation, certificate validation, and user lockout); SSL configuration, including keys, certificates, and other configuration attributes; and access control for partition and global resources. An administrator can designate one or more partition users as partition administrators, via grant of roles.

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

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for JMX support in an application server environment. An exemplary method can provide, at one or more computers, including an application server environment executing thereon, a plurality of deployable resources which can be used within the application server environment, one or more partitions, a plurality of managed beans, each managed beans being a partition level managed bean or a domain level managed bean, each partition level managed bean originating at an originating partition of the one or more partitions, and a JMX framework comprising an API and a managed bean server. The plurality of managed beans can be registered at the managed bean server, with the partition level managed beans being decorated with an identifier.

System and method for JMX support in a multitenant application server environment

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting multiple partitions and edit sessions in a multitenant application server environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a first administrator or user can obtain a named edit session for use with a partition, make changes, and then activate those changes. Another administrator or user can create a named edit session in parallel. If there are conflicts between a concurrent change and changes being made by another user, the administrator will receive an error when activating the changes. At that point, the administrator can resolve the conflicts and activate the changes. Upon activation, the changes in the edit session will be applied to a global edit configuration.

System and method for supporting multiple partition edit sessions in a multitenant application server environment

A connection management system can achieve scalability for domain computing among a plurality of domains. Each of the plurality of domains comprises a collection of machines and resources that are administrated as a unit. A connection concentrator can connect, and support communication between, a plurality of processes in a first domain and a plurality of processes in a second domain. The connection concentrator uses one connection to communicate with any one of the plurality of processes in the first domain, and can communicate with each one of the plurality of processes in the second domain.

System and method for achieving scalability in domain computing

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Peter Bower