EXTENSIBILITY BUNDLES FOR A CLOUD AND DEVICES SUITE

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 ina unified way. Aspects such as discovery, acquisition, authorization, deployment, management, updates, and similar ones may 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. 提供了如下的接口机制：该机制用于开发者将组扩展(插件)起捆绑到生产力套件中，从而允许终端用户和系统管理员以统的方式管理它们的生命周期。诸如发现、获取、授权、部署、管理、更新以及类似项的各方面可以针对捆绑包来解决，而不是不同扩展中的每种扩展(例如，用于同应用的不同版本(例如，桌面版本、网页应用版本、移动版本等)的扩展)。捆绑包还可以提供将特定功能集合或者商业产品匹配到特定用户或者消费者简档的方式。