Managing resources through user-facing web services aggregated in portals

摘要

The present invention relates to a method and respective system for managing the administration of electronic resources accessible in an electronic-network: A solution is offered, in which grid resources or services are enhanced with a presentation interface that provides an administration user-interface (UI) for configuring them, i.e., the administration UI of a distributed resource is provided by the server hosting the resource, or simply the resource itself. This includes also the resource-located logic required to configure the resource according to the user inputs and actions imparted on user controls, which are sent from a respective resource to a portal server. On this portal server, a simple, generic second user-interface software is implemented, which is able to aggregate the fragments or controls of different resources, to display such multiple controls to a human person, to process user inputs imparted on those controls, and to send user control data entered via the user-interface fragments to a resource configuration interface of a respective one of the resources in order to perform the configuration of a respective resource via the respective resource configuration-interface.