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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2015
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Nazrul Islam, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jacob Lindholm, Londonderry, NH (US);
Josh Dorr, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher Kasso, Los Altos, CA (US);
Yamini K. Balasubramanyam, Bangalore, IN;
Steven Liu, Beijing, CN;
Rajiv Mordani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abhijit Kumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
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.