International Business Machines Corporation

Revathi Subramanian

Isabelle Marie Rouvellou

Ignacio Silva-Lepe

Thomas Arthur Mikalsen

Arun Kwangil Iyengar

Paula K Austel

Han Chen

Upendra Sharma

Rahul P Akolkar

Judah M Diament

Hidayatullah Habeebullah Shaikh

Rakesh Mohan

Jonathan Paul Munson

Alla Segal

John Scott Houston

Quinton Yves Zondervan

Mitchell Adam Cohen

Laurent David Hasson

Matthew Jason Duftler

Stephen T Auriemma

Josef Schiefer

Jakka Sairamesh

Maria M Corbett

Jianren Li

Grant J Larsen

Titania Mary Gupta

Fenil Shah

Chuang Chun Liu

Sesha S Baratham

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to data synchronization and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for synchronization log driven data synchronization. In one embodiment of the invention, a data synchronization method can be provided to include assembling a group of initial updates for synchronization, consulting a synchronization log of updates excluded from past synchronizations to determine updates already applied during past synchronizations, removing updates already applied during past synchronizations from a filtered set of updates, and synchronizing the filtered set of updates. In this regard, assembling a group of initial updates for synchronization can include assembling a group of initial updates having a timestamp greater than a timestamp for an immediate past synchronization.

Data store synchronization utilizing synchronization logs

A solution descriptor comprises a set of component workload units, a workload unit describing a deployable application component with application binary, configuration parameters and dependency declarations. An environment descriptor specifies a set of target platforms and plugins in an execution environment. A deployer interprets the solution descriptor and the environment descriptor, and generates a list of tuples comprising compatible workload-plugin-platform combinations. The deployer determines an execution order for the list of tuples, and invokes the plugins in the list of tuples in the execution order, wherein each of the plugins executes a corresponding compatible workload on a corresponding compatible target platform specified in the list of tuples.

Release and management of composite applications on PaaS

Release and management of composite applications on PAAS

An embodiment of the invention includes a system for partitioning asset management plugins. The system includes an application program interface for performing basic CRUD functions on assets having multiple asset types. At least one plugin having plugin components is provided, wherein the plugin manages at least one asset having a specific asset type (of the multiple asset types). The plugin components include a CRUD component, a state component, an actions component, and/or a view component. The system further includes plugin containers for hosting the plugin components, the plugin containers include at least one client-side plugin container and at least one server-side plugin container. The plugin components are partitioned and distributed from the plugin components to the plugin containers by a plugin server based on capabilities of the client.

Method and system for partitioning asset management plugins

Various embodiments manage service labels for association with service specifications in a service-oriented environment. In one embodiment at least one candidate service label is received from a user associated with a service domain of a distributed federated service-oriented environment. The candidate service label includes at least one of a service type and a set of terms characterizing a service. The candidate service label is sent to a community of users associated with one or more service domains in the distributed federated service-oriented environment. One of a vote for accepting the candidate service label and a vote for rejecting the candidate service label is received from each of a plurality of users in the community of users. The candidate service label is stored as an accepted service label in the service domain based on a number of votes for accepting the candidate service label being above a given threshold.

Managing service specifications and the discovery of associated services

Techniques for structure-aware caching are provided. The techniques include decomposing a response from an origin server into one or more independently addressable objects, using a domain specific language to navigate the response to identify the one or more addressable objects and create one or more access paths to the one or more objects, and selecting a route to an object by navigating an internal structure of a cached object to discover one or more additional independently addressable objects.

Structure-aware caching

A system in a cloud services environment comprises one or more service offerings, one or more service instances and one or more service support utilities. Each of the one or more service offerings is described by at least one service descriptor. Each of the one or more service instances is obtained from at least one of the one or more service offerings. Each of the one or more service support utilities is customized by at least one service descriptor. A service comprises at least one component and a service descriptor comprises one or more models.

On-boarding services to a cloud environment

Systems, methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture are disclosed for tracking, propagation and matching of messages pertaining to the interest in and availability of services across autonomous service domains. In one embodiment of the invention, a system of distributed, federated service domains in a service-oriented environment is provided wherein each service domain comprises: a plurality of locally provided services; a plurality of service requesters; and a service registry comprising descriptions of: one or more locally provided services; and one or more requested services, each of the requested services being one of: a fulfilled reference to a foreign service; and an unfulfilled reference to a foreign service.

Matching interest and availability of services in distributed federated service domains

Techniques are disclosed for generation and refinement of service descriptions based on records of invocations of the services, i.e., service description refinement based on actual service use. For example, a method for describing one or more services in a service-oriented environment comprised of one or more clients invoking the one or more services comprises the following steps. An initial description is established for at least one of the one or more services. Information is collected from one or more service invocations including at least one of a client identity, a value of at least one parameter, a return value, and an execution time. The information is analyzed to refine the description.

Service description refinement based on actual service use

A method and apparatus are disclosed for managing composite business processes that include multiple trading mechanisms, such as requests for quotes (RFQs), auctions and contracts, or repeat passes through a single trading mechanism. The independence of the individual business processes that manage each trading mechanism is maintained, while each individual business process can be connected to other business processes to form a composite business process. Each individual business process that may be followed by another business process to form a composite process must have at least one state labeled as a conversion state with a conversion transition to another business process. A conversion transition spans the gap between an end state of one business process and the start state of another subsequent business process. When a conversion state is entered by an object, a determination is made as to whether the object is being managed by a composite flow, and if so, what business process to use next. Conversion transitions execute any necessary steps to create a new object of the type required by the next business process in the composite process.

Method and apparatus for creating and managing complex business processes

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Revathi Subramanian