DELIVERING APPLICATIONS IN THIRD PARTY ENVIRONMENTS

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A computerized method efficiently and instantaneously delivers an application in a third-party environment. An application plugin associated with the application is published to an application publishing portal, while the application itself is stored in an application repository. The application plugin is a fraction of a size of the application. A request is received from a client machine to download the application. In response to the request, the application plugin, instead of the application, is provided to the client machine. The application plugin, comprising metadata and instructions to locate the application on the application repository, is used to make the application available to the user without installing the application on the client machine. The disclosure enables savings on network bandwidth, memory usage, and processing when delivering the application to the client machine.