Title :
Defining Composite Configurable SaaS Application Packages Using SCA, Variability Descriptors and Multi-tenancy Patterns
Author :
Mietzner, Ralph ; Leymann, Frank ; Papazoglou, Mike P.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Archit. of Applic. Syst., Stuttgart Univ., Stuttgart
Abstract :
Currently, several vendors and projects are building proprietary SaaS platforms where more and more applications are hosted in a Software as a Service business model. However, these proprietary platforms prevent that applications offered by different SaaS application vendors can be easily reused on the platforms offered by the different SaaS hosting providers. In this paper we describe a package format for composite configurable SaaS application packages for applications developed following a service oriented architecture. We show how the service component architecture (SCA) can be extended with variability descriptors and SaaS multi-tenancy patterns to package and deploy multi- tenant aware configurable composite SaaS applications.
Keywords :
configuration management; object-oriented programming; software architecture; software packages; Software as a Service business model; composite configurable SaaS application package; multitenancy patterns; multitenant aware configurable application; proprietary SaaS platform; service component architecture; service oriented architecture; variability descriptors; Application software; Buildings; Companies; Component architectures; Conference management; Information management; Management information systems; Packaging; Service oriented architecture; Web and internet services; Application Templates; Multi-Tenancy Patterns; SCA; SaaS;
Conference_Titel :
Internet and Web Applications and Services, 2008. ICIW '08. Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3163-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3163-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICIW.2008.68