EXTENSIBILITY BUNDLES FOR A CLOUD AND DEVICES SUITE

摘要

An interface mechanism is provided for developers to bundle together a set of extensions (or add-ins) to a productivity suite allowing end users and system administrators to manage their lifecycle in a unified way. Aspects such as discovery, acquisition, authorization deployment, management, updates, and similar ones ma be addressed for the bundle as opposed to each of the different extensions (for example extensions for different versions of the same application such as desktop version, web application version, mobile version, etc.). Bundles may also provide a means to match specific functional sets or commercial offerings to specific user or customer profiles.

主权项

1. A computing device configured to provide extensibility bundles for applications and application suites, the computing device comprising:
a memory configured to store one or more instructions associated with execution of a suite of applications; and one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to execute the suite of applications, wherein the suite of applications includes:
a management module configured to:
provide an interface to add an extension module to one or more applications within the suite of applications, wherein the extension module is defined through at least one of a type, a behavior, a property, an activation parameter, and a lifecycle event; andenable addition of the extension module to the one or more applications and to one or more versions of the one or more applications based on the definition; andan integration module configured to integrate the extension module to the one or more applications or the one or more versions.