Providing web application components within remote systems

A method comprising:

• maintaining, at a multi-tenant database system, a component database storing component data objects identifying a plurality of components for web applications;
• maintaining, at a multi-tenant database system, an application database different from the component database and storing application data objects identifying a plurality of web applications useable by developers, each of the plurality of web applications being dependent on one or more of the components;
• processing a first request identifying one of the web applications for use at a remote site associated with a requesting developer, the first request received from a client machine;
• determining, based on a list of allowed remote sites for the plurality of web applications and using a resource sharing object configured for selective addition of sites to the list of allowed remote sites for the plurality of web applications, that the remote site associated with the requesting developer is authorized by the multi-tenant database system with respect to the web application identified by the first request;
• sending data associated with the web application identified by the first request to the remote site associated with the requesting developer;
• processing a second request to provide a first one of the components for use at the remote site associated with the requesting developer, the second request received from the client machine, the second request indicating at least a first component location, the first component location indicating a first specified region of the remote site associated with the requesting developer;
• authenticating, based on a session identifier (ID) in the second request, a communication session between the multi-tenant database system and the remote site associated with the requesting developer, the session ID identifying the communication session as an established session between the multi-tenant database system and the remote site;
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• sending, responsive to authenticating the communication session, data associated with the first component to the remote site associated with the requesting developer, the data associated with the first component configurable to cause an instance of the first component to be included at the remote site associated with the requesting developer at the first component location.

A computer program product comprising computer-readable program code capable of being executed by one or more processors when retrieved from a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the program code comprising instructions configurable to cause:

• maintaining, at a multi-tenant database system, a component database storing component data objects identifying a plurality of components for web applications;
• maintaining, at a multi-tenant database system, an application database different from the component database and storing application data objects identifying a plurality of web applications useable by developers, each of the plurality of web applications being dependent on one or more of the components;
• processing a first request identifying one of the web applications for use at a remote site associated with a requesting developer, the first request received from a client machine;
• determining, based on a list of allowed remote sites for the plurality of web applications and using a resource sharing object configured for selective addition of sites to the list of allowed remote sites for the plurality of web applications, that the remote site associated with the requesting developer is authorized by the multi-tenant database system with respect to the web application identified by the first request;
• sending data associated with the web application identified by the first request to the remote site associated with the requesting developer;
• processing a second request to provide a first one of the components for use at the remote site associated with the requesting developer, the second request received from the client machine, the second request indicating at least a first component location, the first component location indicating a first specified region of the remote site associated with the requesting developer;
• authenticating, based on a session identifier (ID) in the second request, a communication session between the multi-tenant database system and the remote site associated with the requesting developer, the session ID identifying the communication session as an established session between the multi-tenant database system and the remote site;
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• sending data associated with the first component to the remote site associated with the requesting developer, the data associated with the first component configurable to cause an instance of the first component to be included at the remote site associated with the requesting developer at the first component location.