A study on the application lifecycle management over SOA based application hosting platform

We introduce the application hosting platform which is based on the SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) and a mechanism for application lifecycle management. Using functionalities of this application hosting platform, the third party application providers can develop their applications by composing service components and provide them easily without constructing their own platform environment. The application hosting platform supports service composition based on SOA, application deployment and management. In addition, the application providers can manage the lifecycle of their applications through the management service portal easily. In the hosting model, the management facilities for the 3rd party application providers are essential. We address the portal based management for the 3^rd party application providers and describe the management flow in this paper.