A METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY DEPLOYING AND MAINTAINING AN APPLICATION OBJECT ACROSS A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING DOMAIN

摘要

The present invention relates to applications are automatically deployed in a distributed computing environment through the use of Smart Directories (305). In an embodiment, Smart Directories are a repository (305, 310, 315) for copies of the applications currently deployed in the distributed computing environment. The Smart Directories are monitored by the distributed computing environment (355). New applications added to the Smart Directories are automatically deployed (333). Applications modified in the Smart Directories are automatically redeployed (338). Applications removed from the Smart Directories are automatically undeployed (348). The Smart Directories can automatically deploy applications packaged in a single file or unpackaged as several component files. FIGURE 3