公开(公告)号：US20190392136A1

公开(公告)日：2019-12-26

申请号：US16017959

申请日：2018-06-25

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Tony GANCHEV ,  Plamen DIMITROV ,  Vladimir VELIKOV

IPC: G06F21/53 ,  G06F8/61 ,  G06F9/445

Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for installing and deploying a plug-in on a computer system so as to extend an extensible software. The plug-in is encapsulated in an installation file recognizable by the extensible software as indicating that the software modules within the installation file should be installed within their own local scope on the extensible software. The approach further provides a method for handling a request for an application programming interface by a service module of an installed plug-in. The method of handling the request includes determining whether the requested API is within a local scope of the service module, and if so, providing the API from the local scope, or otherwise, providing the API from the global scope of the extensible software.

公开(公告)号：US20230229474A1

公开(公告)日：2023-07-20

申请号：US17578451

申请日：2022-01-19

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Plamen DIMITROV ,  Ankur Kumar SHARMA ,  Vladimir VELIKOV ,  Hakan HALIL ,  Andrey KARABELYOV ,  Ivaylo RADEV ,  Tony GANCHEV

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/445 ,  G06F21/53 ,  G06F21/54

CPC classification number: G06F9/45558 ,  G06F9/44526 ,  G06F21/53 ,  G06F21/54 ,  G06F2009/45595 ,  G06F2009/45587

Abstract: Example methods and systems to register and manage a plug-in in a virtualized computing environment have been disclosed. One example method includes initiating a deployment process to deploy a virtual appliance configured to host the plug-in, pushing information associated with a user interface on a management entity to the virtual appliance to be one or more Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) environment properties, powering on the virtual appliance and registering and managing the plug-in on the management entity through the UI.