SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LAYERED APPLICATION SERVER PROCESSING

• US 20090271498A1
• Filed: 02/05/2009
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Cable, Laurence Paul Gildea
• Granted Patent: US 8,838,669 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45537 Provision of facilities of other operating environments, e.g. WINE I/O emulation G06F13/105
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing

Abstract

A system and method for layered application server processing. Embodiments of the system are particularly useful in extreme transaction processing (XTP) environments to support hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users, and perhaps millions of simultaneous transactions. Applications can be built from service components. Mashups can be performed on applications, services, and data, to create a more dynamic form of application. Data center consolidation and server virtualization techniques can be used to distribute applications over multiple machines or data centers. A horizontal Operating System (OS) fabric is then used to integrate components of the data centers in a dynamic fashion, including for example integrating portal or Service Component Architecture (SCA) components into personality profiles that can be federated over many (e.g. thousands) of Java machines and data centers. The net result is that the system can be quickly and dynamically modified or distributed over different machines and different applications, even over distances of different continents, to respond to the immediate needs of the enterprise.

Claims

1. A system for layered application server processing, comprising:

a plurality of computer servers or data centers including a computer server hardware, wherein each of the plurality of computer servers or data centers further comprises a layered application server environment, including

a Java virtual machine,

a server virtualization layer that abstracts the Java virtual machine from the computer server hardware,

one or more hosting engines that provide a modularized operating system instance,

a personalization layer that allows different personas to be associated with each, application server environment, and

an application layer for executing Java-based software applications; and

wherein the personas that are provided by the plurality of computer servers or data centers are used to provide a services cloud that is then used by the Java-based software applications to execute upon and share the resources of the computer servers or data centers.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more hosting engines provide an OSGi modularized operating system instance.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the personas are one or more of Java Enterprise Edition or Spring.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of computer servers or data centers personas are distributed over a plurality of different geographic locations, and wherein a Java-based software application can be deployed to run within the cloud and processed by the plurality of computer servers or data centers in the different geographic locations.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the Java-based software application deployed to run within the cloud and processed by the plurality of computer servers or data centers in the different geographic locations can be dynamically allocated to the different computer servers or data centers according to a configuration, and the available processing capability at the different geographic locations at different points in time.

6. A method for layered application server processing, comprising the steps of:

providing a plurality of computer servers or data centers including a computer server hardware, wherein each of the plurality of computer servers or data centers further comprises a layered application server environment, including

a Java virtual machine,

a server virtualization layer that abstracts the Java virtual machine from the computer server hardware,

one or more hosting engines that provide a modularized operating system instance,

a personalization layer that allows different personas to be associated with each, application server environment,

an application layer for executing Java-based software applications,

wherein the personas are used to provide a services cloud that can be then used by the Java-based software applications to execute upon and share the resources of the computer servers or data centers; and

deploying a Java-based software application to run within the cloud.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein each of the one or more hosting engines provide an OSGi modularized operating system instance.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein each of the personas are one or more of Java Enterprise Edition or Spring.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the plurality of computer servers or data centers personas are distributed over a plurality of different geographic locations, and wherein a Java-based software application can be deployed to run within the cloud and processed by the plurality of computer servers or data centers in the different geographic locations.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the Java-based software application deployed to run within the cloud and processed by the plurality of computer servers or data centers in the different geographic locations can be dynamically allocated to the different computer servers or data centers according to a configuration, and the available processing capability at the different geographic locations at different points in time.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein each of the one or more hosting engines provide an OSGi modularized operating system instance.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein each of the personas are one or more of Java Enterprise Edition or Spring.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the plurality of computer servers or data centers personas are distributed over a plurality of different geographic locations, and wherein a Java-based software application can be deployed to run within the cloud and processed by the plurality of computer servers or data centers in the different geographic locations.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the Java-based software application deployed to run within the cloud and processed by the plurality of computer servers or data centers in the different geographic locations can be dynamically allocated to the different computer servers or data centers according to a configuration, and the available processing capability at the different geographic locations at different points in time.

11. A computer readable medium including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:

providing a plurality of computer servers or data centers including a computer server hardware, wherein each of the plurality of computer servers or data centers further comprises a layered application server environment, including

a Java virtual machine,

a server virtualization layer that abstracts the Java virtual machine from the computer server hardware,

one or more hosting engines that provide a modularized operating system instance,

a personalization layer that allows different personas to be associated with each, application server environment,

an application layer for executing Java-based software applications,

wherein the personas are used to provide a services cloud that can be then used by the Java-based software applications to execute upon and share the resources of the computer servers or data centers; and

deploying a Java-based software application to run within the cloud.