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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
John E. Arwe, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Gerd Breiter, Wildberg, DE;
Marek Chodorowski, Debno Polskie, PL;
Felix Dross, Bochum, DE;
Narine Kokhlikyan, Karlsruhe, DE;
Hoang Anh Le, Karlsruhe, DE;
David B. Lindquist, Raleigh, NC (US);
Simon Moser, Stuttgart, DE;
Isabell Schwertle, Metzingen, DE;
Thomas Spatzier, Sindelfingen, DE;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Instantiating a resource of an IT-service includes: analyzing a service model including nodes representing resources and being indicative of a resource type, each node comprising a generic API providing at least one abstract method for instantiating the resource represented by the respective node. For each node, determining the resource type indicated by the node; evaluating a service provider catalog indicative of a resource manager operable to provide a resource of a given resource type and determining an address of the resource manager; selecting a resource manager; sending a request to the address of the selected resource manager for a description of a resource-manager-specific API of the resource manager; receiving the requested description from the selected resource manager; overriding the abstract method by a resource-manager specific method of the resource-manager-specific API for instantiating the resource; and executing the overridden abstract method for instantiating the resource represented by the node.