A Multi-tenant Web Application Framework for SaaS

Author

Wonjae Lee ; Min Choi

Author_Institution

Broadcasting & Telecommun. Convergence Res. Lab., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst, Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

24-29 June 2012

Firstpage

970

Lastpage

971

Abstract

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software delivery model in which software resources are accessed remotely by users. Enterprises find SaaS attractive because of its low cost. SaaS requires sharing of application servers among multiple tenants for low operational costs. Besides the sharing of application servers, customizations are needed to meet requirements of each tenant. Supporting various levels of configuration and customization is desirable for SaaS frameworks. This paper describes a multi-tenant web application framework for SaaS. The proposed framework supports runtime customizations of user interfaces and business logics by use of file-level namespaces, inheritance, and polymorphism. It supports various client-side web application technologies.

Keywords

cloud computing; user interfaces; SaaS; application server sharing; business logic; client-side Web application technology; configuration level; customization level; file-level namespace; inheritance; multitenant Web application framework; operational cost; polymorphism; runtime customization; software delivery model; software resource; software-as-a-service; user interface; Business; Cascading style sheets; Computational modeling; Servers; Software; Standards; User interfaces; Cloud Computing; Multi-tenancy; Platform as a Service (PaaS); Software as a Service (SaaS);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2012 IEEE 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2159-6182

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2892-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLOUD.2012.27

Filename

6253608