Web App Components in Virtual Environments

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Solution Overview

Problem

Large web applications developed by multiple teams face challenges in coordination and maintenance due to the need for using the same programming language and version, limiting flexibility and ease of development and scaling.

Innovation Solution

Allowing web application components to operate within different virtual environments such as virtual machines and containers, enabling each component to use a different programming language and runtime environment, with a proxy component managing requests and state information for seamless communication and user experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If web application components use the same programming language and version, then coordination and maintenance become easier, but flexibility and ease of development and scaling are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflexibility and ease of developmentVSAvoidcoordination and maintenance complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The web application is divided into multiple independent components, each capable of using different programming languages and runtime environments. These components are isolated in separate execution contexts (containers or virtual machines), allowing each to be developed, deployed, and scaled independently while maintaining overall system functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A gateway component is introduced as an intermediary between the client device and the various web application components. The gateway receives client requests, determines which component should handle each request, and routes them appropriately. It also aggregates responses from multiple components and presents a unified interface to the client, masking the underlying heterogeneity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If multiple programming languages are used across components, then development flexibility improves, but coordination and maintenance difficulty increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevelopment flexibilityVSAvoidcoordination and maintenance ease

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The application is segmented into independent components that can be developed by different teams using their preferred programming languages. Each component is encapsulated in its own execution environment, allowing heterogeneous languages to coexist without interfering with each other's development processes or maintenance procedures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The gateway serves as a language-agnostic intermediary that communicates with components using different programming languages. It handles the complexity of cross-language coordination, request routing, and response aggregation, allowing component developers to focus on their specific language implementations without worrying about system-wide coordination.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If components are isolated in different virtual environments, then language independence is achieved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelanguage independenceVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The gateway is designed as a universal component that can interface with multiple different programming languages and runtime environments through a single unified interface. It provides multi-functional capabilities including request routing, response aggregation, and coordination management, reducing the need for separate integration mechanisms for each language combination.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The gateway acts as a mediating layer that abstracts the complexity of managing multiple virtual environments. It handles the routing logic, component discovery, and response aggregation, allowing the system to scale to numerous components across different languages without proportionally increasing the complexity of coordination mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11895553B2Web application with components in different virtual environments

Publication Date: 2024.02.06 RED HAT INC

AI summary

A web application with multiple components located in different virtual environments. A method of the disclosure includes receiving a first request to access a first component of a web application from a client device, routing the client device to a first virtual environment where the first component of the web application is located based on the first request, wherein the first virtual environment uses a first runtime environment, receiving a second request to access a second component of the web application from the client device, and routing the client to a second virtual environment where the second component of the web application is located based on the second request, wherein the second virtual environment uses a second runtime environment and wherein the first runtime environment is different from the second runtime environment.