METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AT LEAST ONE APPLICATIONS PROCESS AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT

• US 20100269113A1
• Filed: 11/07/2008
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Bregant-Belin, Pierre
• Granted Patent: US 8,543,435 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5038 considering the execution order of a plurality of tasks, e.g. taking priority or time dependency constraints into consideration scheduling strategies G06F9/4881 and subgroups

Abstract

A method and apparatus are provided for controlling at least one application process comprising a plurality of application services, which are executed in an application environment in order to provide a service. One such method includes steps enabling a globally asynchronous implementation of the aforementioned application services without generating a timeout in relation to a client that requested the implementation of said application process.

Claims

1. A method for controlling at least one applications process comprising a plurality of applications services, said method comprising:

receiving a request for activating at least one applications process;

transmitting at least one piece of information representing a start of activation of said applications process called a piece of activation information;

executing each of said applications services;

transmitting a piece of information representing an end of execution of each of said applications services; and

transmitting at least one piece of information representing an end of activation of said applications process, said step taking account of each of said pieces of information representing an end of execution of each of said applications services.

2. The method according to claim 1, comprising, prior to said step of transmitting at least one piece of information representing a start of activation, executing a synchronous service delivering said at least one piece of information on activation.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said at least one applications process is of a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) type.

4. The method according to claim 2 wherein, at the end of said step of executing a synchronous service, a step is executed which inserts said piece of activation information into a data base if such a piece of activation information has not already been inserted relative to said applications process, so as to provide an indicator according to which said applications process is being executed and cannot be activated again before the end of its current execution.

5. A device for controlling at least one applications process comprising a plurality of applications services, wherein the device comprises:

means for receiving a request for activating at least one applications process;

means for transmitting at least one piece of information representing a start of activation of said applications process called a piece of activation information;

means for executing each of said applications services;

means for transmitting a piece of information representing an end of execution of each of said applications services; and

means for transmitting at least one piece of information representing an end of activation of said applications process, said step taking account of each of said pieces of information representing an end of execution of each of said applications services.

6. A computer program product recorded on a computer-readable carrier and executable by a microprocessor, and comprising program code instructions for executing a method for controlling at least one applications process comprising a plurality of applications services when said instructions are executed on a computer, wherein the method comprises:

receiving a request for activating at least one applications process;

transmitting at least one piece of information representing a start of activation of said applications process called a piece of activation information;

executing each of said applications services;

transmitting a piece of information representing an end of execution of each of said applications services; and

transmitting at least one piece of information representing an end of activation of said applications process, said step taking account of each of said pieces of information representing an end of execution of each of said applications services.