Dynamic Metadata for Customized Deployment in a Multi-tenant B2B Setup

Abstract

Software as a service (SAAS) provides enterprises with a medium to deploy scalable and extensible web services to their clients based on their contracts. In a multitenant business to business setup often there is an anomaly as the tenants have varied needs in terms of their deployment and interfaces. In statically compiled applications the needs of runtime requests and polymorphism in terms of the deployed package cannot be met. For these reasons in this paper we propose a solution to this problem by considering a framework that supports dynamic metadata-data about the application itself. The hosting enterprise does not have to deploy a separate service for every tenant and each tenant in the setup can customize his application and independently execute the service In well-defined metadata driven architecture the compiled runtime engine (kernel) and the metadata clearly differ from each other. Due to this clear separation tenants can individually customize their contracts and make any relevant changes dynamically without affecting the overall performance or working of the setup.

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