A method for managing application patterns. Service application programming interfaces required for use by an application on a runtime platform are provisioned. The application is based on an application pattern. Deployment information for deploying the application on the runtime platform is generated. The deployment information includes values for properties of the application pattern for configuring the application on the runtime platform. The deployment information is used to deploy the application on the runtime platform. In response, the runtime platform runs the application with the application using the service application programming interfaces previously provisioned for use by the application on the runtime platform.