Application Message Caching In A Feed Adapter

• US 20080114938A1
• Filed: 11/14/2006
• Published: 05/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Borgendale, Kenneth W.
• Application Number:
  US11/559,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20080114938A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/118
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for application message caching in a feed adapter that include providing a feed adapter capable of converting application messages having an input message format to application messages having an output message format, the feed adapter comprising a feed adapter cache and a plurality of caching functions for administering the feed adapter cache; establishing, on the feed adapter, a configuration policy that specifies a caching rule using at least one of the caching functions; receiving, in the feed adapter, an application message having the input message format; and storing, by the feed adapter, the application message having the input message format in the feed adapter cache according to the caching rule of the configuration policy.

Claims

1. A method of application message caching in a feed adapter, the method comprising:

providing a feed adapter capable of converting application messages having an input message format to application messages having an output message format, the feed adapter comprising a feed adapter cache and a plurality of caching functions for administering the feed adapter cache;

establishing, on the feed adapter, a configuration policy that specifies a caching rule using at least one of the caching functions;

receiving, in the feed adapter, an application message having the input message format; and

storing, by the feed adapter, the application message having the input message format in the feed adapter cache according to the caching rule of the configuration policy.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein storing, by the feed adapter, the application message having the input message format in the feed adapter cache according to the caching rule of the configuration policy further comprises:

calling each of the caching functions used to specify the caching rule of the configuration policy in dependence upon the application message having the input message format.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

retrieving, by the feed adapter, an application message having the output message format from the feed adapter cache according to the caching rule of the configuration policy; and

transmitting, by the feed adapter to a message receiving device on a message stream, the retrieved application message.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising brokering, by a stream administration server, establishment of the message stream from the feed adapter to the message receiving device.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein retrieving, by the feed adapter, an application message having the output message format from the feed adapter cache according to the caching rule of the configuration policy further comprises:

calling each of the caching functions used to specify the caching rule of the configuration policy;

receiving, in return from each of the called caching functions, a value; and

storing each of the received values in the application message having the output message format.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the caching rule specifies retrieval of an application message from the feed adapter cache in response to receiving an application message request, and the method further comprises receiving, in the feed adapter from a message receiving device, the application message request.

7. The method of claim 3 wherein the message receiving device is a subscribing client device.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the caching functions is capable of:

retrieving a value from the application message having the input message format; and

storing the retrieved valve in the feed adapter cache.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the caching functions is capable of:

calculating a new cache value in dependence upon a current cache value and the application message having the input message format; and

storing the new cache valve in the feed adapter cache.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the caching functions is capable of:

retrieving a cache value from the feed adapter cache; and

returning the retrieved cache value.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the application message further comprises financial market data.

12. An apparatus for application message caching in a feed adapter, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:

providing a feed adapter capable of converting application messages having an input message format to application messages having an output message format, the feed adapter comprising a feed adapter cache and a plurality of caching functions for administering the feed adapter cache;

establishing, on the feed adapter, a configuration policy that specifies a caching rule using at least one of the caching functions;

receiving, in the feed adapter, an application message having the input message format; and

storing, by the feed adapter, the application message having the input message format in the feed adapter cache according to the caching rule of the configuration policy.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein storing, by the feed adapter, the application message having the input message format in the feed adapter cache according to the caching rule of the configuration policy further comprises:

calling each of the caching functions used to specify the caching rule of the configuration policy in dependence upon the application message having the input message format.

14. The apparatus of claim 12 further comprising computer program instructions capable of:

retrieving, by the feed adapter, an application message having the output message format from the feed adapter cache according to the caching rule of the configuration policy; and

transmitting, by the feed adapter to a message receiving device on a message stream, the retrieved application message.

15. A computer program product for application message caching in a feed adapter, the computer program product disposed upon a signal bearing medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions capable of:

establishing, on a feed adapter capable of converting application messages having an input message format to application messages having an output message format, a configuration policy that specifies a caching rule using at least one of a plurality of caching functions comprised on the feed adapter, the plurality of caching functions capable of administering a feed adapter cache also comprised on the feed adapter;

receiving, in the feed adapter, an application message having the input message format; and

storing, by the feed adapter, the application message having the input message format in the feed adapter cache according to the caching rule of the configuration policy.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the signal bearing medium comprises a recordable medium.

17. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the signal bearing medium comprises a transmission medium.

18. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein storing, by the feed adapter, the application message having the input message format in the feed adapter cache according to the caching rule of the configuration policy further comprises:

calling each of the caching functions used to specify the caching rule of the configuration policy in dependence upon the application message having the input message format.

19. The computer program product of claim 15 further comprising computer program instructions capable of:

retrieving, by the feed adapter, an application message having the output message format from the feed adapter cache according to the caching rule of the configuration policy; and

transmitting, by the feed adapter to a message receiving device on a message stream, the retrieved application message.

20. The computer program product of claim 19 wherein retrieving, by the feed adapter, an application message having the output message format from the feed adapter cache according to the caching rule of the configuration policy further comprises:

calling each of the caching functions used to specify the caching rule of the configuration policy;

receiving, in return from each of the called caching functions, a value; and

storing each of the received values in the application message having the output message format.