Architecture that facilitates management of an application or service of a
system. A catalog is provided that stores management information which is
accessible to determine the status of the application of service. Code of
the application or service to be installed on the system is attributed
with management information. When installed, the application or service
is processed to copy the management information into a manifest, which
manifest is further stored in the catalog along with other manifests
associated with different applications or services. The management
information in a manifest is uniquely identified by a URI, which access
to the management information is via the URI, and which leads to the
associated application or service.
