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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2016
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 of the IT-service where the service model includes a node representing a resource for providing the IT-service. A resource type of the resource being indicated by the node is determined, and a service provider catalog is evaluated to determine a resource manager operable to instantiate the resource and an address of the resource manager. A request is sent to the address of the resource manager for a description of a resource-manager-specific API of the resource manager. Upon receipt of the requested description, at least one abstract method for instantiating the resource is overridden with a resource-manager specific method of the resource-manager-specific API, and the resource-manager specific method for instantiating the resource represented by the node is executed.