The provisioning of shared resources is an essential characteristic of cloud computing. Sharing enables economies of scale associated with the cloud. Elastic platforms extend resource sharing to the operating systems and middleware. The extension enhances economies of scale by increasing the utilization rates of these resources. This PaaS service delivers application components to various customers on a shared middleware platform. Maintained by the service provider, the environment is also referred to as an integrated development environment (IDE). Customers build and deploy custom application components to the middleware platform with a self-service interface. This enables resource sharing and automated middleware management.
