Abstract:
The system includes a virtualized environment having at least one partition. An instance of an application executes in the partition. The application instance is not dedicated to a single user or element. Rather, the application instance may be shared or parsed out to two or more users or elements. To accomplish this sharing, the static data (which is common to all the elements or users) may be maintained in the partition or is loaded at runtime. The dynamic data (the data which is unique to each instantiation and associated with the element requesting the application) can be loaded when an instance is dedicated to execute for a particular element or user. Thus, various elements can share instances of an application and there need not be instances dedicated to particular elements.