An Approach to Add Multi-tenancy to Existing Applications

Uwe Hohenstein, Preeti Koka

2016

Abstract

Multi-tenancy, i.e., sharing resources amongst several tenants, is a key element to make SaaS profitable by saving resources and operational costs. This paper considers multi-tenancy in the context of Cloud migration and presents an approach to let existing applications become multi-tenant. The novelty of this approach is that no reengineering and modification of the application’s source code is required. Adding some new components is sufficient to achieve tenant management, authentication, tenant isolation, and also customization. Using a case study, the paper demonstrates in detail how to benefit from aspect-orientation, particularly the AspectJ language, in this respect and concludes with experiences.

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Hohenstein U. and Koka P. (2016). An Approach to Add Multi-tenancy to Existing Applications . In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-194-6, pages 39-49. DOI: 10.5220/0005973800390049


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@conference{icsoft-pt16,
author={Uwe Hohenstein and Preeti Koka},
title={An Approach to Add Multi-tenancy to Existing Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={39-49},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005973800390049},
isbn={978-989-758-194-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2016)
TI - An Approach to Add Multi-tenancy to Existing Applications
SN - 978-989-758-194-6
AU - Hohenstein U.
AU - Koka P.
PY - 2016
SP - 39
EP - 49
DO - 10.5220/0005973800390049