Integrating Non-Compliant Providers of Dynamic Services into a Resource Management infrastructure

A computer program product for implementing a resource management infrastructure including a framework for allowing management applications to access a set of managed objects, the framework supporting compliant providers of dynamic services for the managed objects running in a first operative environment and for integrating a plurality of non-compliant providers of dynamic services for said set of the managed objects, the non-compliant providers running in a second operative environment that is not supported by the framework, the computer program product comprising a computer usable storage medium having computer executable program code embodied therewith, the computer executable program code comprising:

• computer executable program code configured requesting a first dynamic service for a selected managed object of the set from a compliant provider associated with the selected managed object, the compliant provider being common to all the managed objects of the set;
• computer executable program code configured causing the compliant provider to convert at least one first parameter received from the framework with the request of the first service into at least one second parameter supported by the second operative environment;
• computer executable program code configured causing the compliant provider to identify a non-compliant provider associated with the selected managed object;
• computer executable program code configured causing the compliant provider to verify whether the second operative environment has been created before requesting the second dynamic service from the intermediate entity;
• computer executable program code configured causing the compliant provider to create the second operative environment if the result of the verification is negative;
• computer executable program code configured causing the compliant provider to send a request for a second dynamic service for the selected managed object, corresponding to the first dynamic service, to an intermediate entity running in the second operative environment, said request comprising an indication of the non-compliant provider;
• computer executable program code configured causing the compliant provider to pass the at least one second parameter to the intermediate entity with the request for the second dynamic service;
• computer executable program code configured causing the intermediate entity to route the request for the second dynamic service to the non-compliant provider, the intermediate entity passing the at least one second parameter to the non-compliant provider with the request for the second dynamic service;
• computer executable program code configured causing the non-compliant provider to return the result of the second dynamic service to the intermediate entity;
• computer executable program code configured causing the intermediate entity to return the result of the second dynamic service to the compliant provider;
• computer executable program code configured causing the compliant provider to construct a result of the first dynamic service according to the result of the second dynamic service;
• computer executable program code configured causing the compliant provider to return the result of the first dynamic service to the framework;
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• computer executable program code configured causing the compliant provider to destroy the second operative environment after a predetermined time-out from a last use thereof.

A resource management infrastructure comprising:

• a framework for enabling management applications to access managed objects;
• a compliant provider of dynamic services for the managed objects running in a first operative environment, said compliant provider being common to all the managed objects;
• a non-compliant provider of dynamic services for the managed objects, said non-compliant provider running in a second operative environment that is not supported by the framework and an intermediate entity running in the second operative environment;
• said compliant provider further comprising
• means for receiving a request from said framework for a first dynamic service for a selected managed object,
• means for converting at least one parameter received from the framework with the request for the first service into at least one second parameter supported by the second operative environment,
• means for identifying a non-compliant provider associated with the selected management object,
• means for verifying whether the second operative environment has been created before requesting the second dynamic service from the intermediate entity,
• means for creating the second operative environment if the result of the verification is negative,
• means for sending a request to the intermediate entity for a second dynamic service for the selected management object, the request comprising an identification of a non-compliant provider,
• said intermediate entity further comprising means for routing the request for the second dynamic service to the identified non-compliant provider, the routed request comprising the at least one second parameter;
• said non-compliant provider further comprising means for returning a result of the second dynamic service to the intermediate entity;
• said intermediate entity further comprising means for forwarding the returned result to the compliant provider;
• and
• said compliant provider further comprising
• means for constructing a result of the first dynamic service according to the result of the second dynamic service,
• means for returning the result of the first dynamic service to the framework, and
• means for destroying the second operative environment after a predetermined time-out from a last use thereof.