Patent attributes
An application lifecycle manager manages the lifecycles of different applications. The application lifecycle manager allows for development teams to control how their applications are updated by providing script which performs the lifecycle task. The tool includes an interface that receives a package which includes the script, configuration information, any dependency data needed to implement the lifecycle task. Hence, the development teams have control over how their applications are updated modified because the package is passed through the interface directly to the application. The tool includes the interface receive the package, and includes logic to open the package and apply the package contents to the application as part of the lifecycle.
