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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAlan Shi, Srivatsan Parthasarathy, Biddappa Nanaiah Berera, Rajeet Nair, Rakesh Malhotra, Michael Michael, Eric Joseph Winner
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The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing update notifications on distributed application objects. When a new version of an object is created that another object depends on, a notification can be added to the dependent object to alert a person that manages the dependent object of the creation of the updated object. Dependent objects can include template objects, such as virtual machine template objects that refer to virtual disk objects and service template objects that refer to one or more virtual machine template objects, as well as service instance objects that represent service instances that are instantiated from template objects. Versions of objects within a family can be identified by sharing a family name and having different releases. A timestamp is used to represent when an object is released to determine which version of an object is the newest version in a family.
At a computer system including one or more processors and system memory, the computer system executing a plurality of distributed applications that are each instantiated from a template object, the template object defining a plurality of objects that each represent a component of the corresponding distributed application, a method for providing a notification of an update to an object that represents a virtual storage device, the method comprising:
At a computer system including one or more processors and system memory, the computer system executing a plurality of distributed applications that are each instantiated from a template object that defines a plurality of objects that each represent a component of the corresponding distributed application, a method for providing a notification of an update to a template object to one or more service instance objects that represent a service instance that was generated from the template object, the method comprising:
At a computer system including one or more processors and system memory, the computer system executing a plurality of distributed applications that are each instantiated from a template object that defines a plurality of objects that each represent a component of the corresponding distributed application, a method for identifying a new version of an object used in an instantiated distributed application, the method comprising:
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