US 7,926,051 B2Granted

Automatic parallel non-dependent component deployment

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsAttila Barta, Kwasi A. Asare, Richard D. Huddleston, Daniel E. Jemiolo

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Abstract

The methods, systems, data structures and computer program products for deploying software components are provided, including deploying components in an enterprise environment. Dependency relationships among components to be deployed arc determined. Those components which are not dependent upon any other component may be installed first and substantially in parallel. Components which are dependent only upon the first installed components are next installed, substantially in parallel. Installation thus progresses until all components have been installed. By installing in parallel those components having a similar level of dependency, rather than installing all components sequentially, the deployment is more efficient and requires less time to complete.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method for deploying a plurality of software components associated with a plurality of different applications on a computer system, comprising:

determining, via a configuration management computing system for the plurality of different applications, parallel deployment dependency relationships between each of the plurality of software components to be installed and each other of the plurality of software components to be installed, the parallel deployment dependency relationships provided by a component semantic model that captures topology relationships among the plurality of software components;
identifying, for the plurality of different applications, a first group of the plurality of software components to be installed, none of which is dependent upon any other software component to be installed;
identifying, for the plurality of different applications, a second group of the plurality of software components to be installed, all of which are dependent only upon a software component in the first group;
installing, via the configuration management computing system, the first group substantially in parallel;
after the installation of the first group, installing, via the configuration management computing system, the second group substantially in parallel;
wherein the first group and the second group are identified by generating a parallel acyclic directed graph comprising the parallel deployment dependency relationships;
and
wherein the plurality of different applications comprise an application server, an object oriented database, and a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server.

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A system for installing a plurality of software components associated with a plurality of different applications, comprising:

a computer programmed to:
determine, for the plurality of different applications, parallel deployment dependency relationships between each of the plurality of software components to be installed and each other of the plurality of software components to be installed, the parallel deployment dependency relationships provided by a component semantic model that captures topology relationships among the plurality of software components;
identify, for the plurality of different applications, a first group of the plurality of software components to be installed, none of which is dependent upon any other software component to be installed;
identify, for the plurality of different applications, a second group of the plurality of software components to be installed, all of which are dependent only upon a software component in the first group;
install the first group substantially in parallel;
after the installation of the of the first group, install the second group substantially in parallel;
wherein the first group and the second group are identified by generating a parallel acyclic directed graph comprising the parallel deployment dependency relationships;
and
wherein the plurality of different applications comprise an application server, an object oriented database, and a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server.

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A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium usable with a programmable computer, the computer program product having computer-readable code embodied therein for installing software components, the computer-readable code comprising instructions for:

determining, for a plurality of different applications, parallel deployment dependency relationships between each of a plurality of software components to be installed and each other of the plurality of software components to be installed, the parallel deployment dependency relationships provided by a component semantic model that captures topology relationships among the plurality of software components;
identifying, for the plurality of different applications, a first group of the plurality of software components to be installed, none of which is dependent upon any other software component to be installed;
identifying, for the plurality of different applications, a second group of the plurality of software components to be installed, all of which are dependent only upon a software component in the first group;
installing the first group substantially in parallel;
after the installation of the first group, installing the second group substantially in parallel;
wherein the first group and the second group are identified by generating a parallel acyclic directed graph comprising the parallel dependency relationships;
and
wherein the plurality of different applications comprise an application server, an object oriented data base, and a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.