System and method for supporting fault tolerant job management in a cloud platform environment

A method for supporting fault tolerant job management in a cloud computing environment, comprising:

• providing, at a computer, a cloud environment that supports provisioning of enterprise applications;
• providing a job manager that manages the execution of jobs within the cloud environment including their job states;
• providing a job manager service that provides an application program interface which receives administrative commands to be processed within the cloud environment as jobs;
• and
• wherein the job manager supports fault tolerant job processing including
• associating the jobs with checkpoints,
• recognizing a failover command for the jobs, and
• associating the jobs with work units of the administrative commands, and storing a state for each job upon processing each work unit of the command.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:

• providing, at a computer, a cloud environment that supports provisioning of enterprise applications;
• providing a job manager that manages the execution of jobs within the cloud environment including their job states;
• providing a job manager service that provides an application program interface which receives administrative commands to be processed within the cloud environment as jobs;
• and
• wherein the job manager supports fault tolerant job processing including
• associating the jobs with checkpoints,
• recognizing a failover command for the jobs, and
• associating the jobs with work units of the administrative commands, and storing a state for each job upon processing each work unit of the command.