Multi-tier application architecture

• US 20040216111A1
• Filed: 03/15/2004
• Published: 10/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company LLC (GE Healthcare Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company LLC (GE Healthcare Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bharara, Aavishkar
• Application Number:
  US10/800,769
• Publication Number:
  US 20040216111A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1415 at system level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1438 Restarting or rejuvenating

Abstract

The present invention aims at providing a multi-tier application architecture that fast accesses objects and has a fail-safe function against middletier crash. A framework mediates between an application and a middletier and allows the middletier to execute an object fetched by the application from a cache. When an object becomes stale, the framework repeatedly refreshes that object within a limited number of retries. When the refresh succeeds, the framework returns the object to the cache and again allows the middletier to execute the object. When the refresh does not succeed within the specified number of retries, the framework quits the application in a fail-safe state.

Claims

1. A multi-tier application architecture having a middletier comprising:

a framework to mediate between an application and a middletier,

wherein the framework allows a middletier to execute an object fetched by an application from a cache;

wherein, when an object becomes stale, the framework repeatedly refreshes the object within a limited number of retries;

wherein, when an object refresh succeeds, the framework returns the object to the cache and again allows the middletier to execute the object; and

wherein, when an object refresh does not succeed within a limited number of retries, the framework quits an application in fail-safe way.

2. The multi-tier application architecture according to claim 1, wherein a user can specify the limited number of retries.

3. The multi-tier application architecture according to claim 2, wherein a user can specify a time interval between the retries.

4. The multi-tier application architecture according to claim 1, wherein the framework has its operations visualized to a user.

5. The multi-tier application architecture according to claim 1, further including a watchdog to resume normal operations when the middletier crashes.

6. The multi-tier application architecture according to claim 5, wherein the watchdog recovers a middletier based on a result of periodical polling.

7. The multi-tier application architecture according to claim 5, wherein the watchdog recovers a middletier based on notification from the framework.