SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A PLUG-AND-PLAY ARCHITECTURE FOR INTEGRATING INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES WITH BUSINESS SERVICE IMPLEMENTATIONS.

摘要

A system and method for composing, configuring, deploying, and managing services in a data processing system and data processing system network. This system provides deployment domains to define a logical set of business services that have similar requirements for an application infrastructure. When a business service request is made, the request is processed through a series of infrastructure service plugs before being delivered to the business service. After processing, any response is again processed through the infrastructure service plugs before being returned. This process ensures that business services can be "plugged in" to the deployment domain, and will properly interact with all required infrastructure services.