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Smart stub or enterprise Java™ bean in a distributed processing system

  • US 7,454,755 B2
  • Filed: 04/30/2003
  • Issued: 11/18/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An article of manufacture including an information storage medium wherein is stored information, comprising:

  • a first set of digital including a stub operating at a client and including within the stub a load balancing software component for selecting a service provider from a plurality of service providers in a cluster,wherein the stub is a remote method invocation stub that is used by the client to contact a naming service within the cluster and wherein the naming service provides to the stub at runtime an updated list of currently available service providers in the cluster,wherein each of the service providers provides a remote method implementation that the stub can communicate with using remote method invocation, andwherein the stub uses its load balancing software component to select a service provider and then communicate with the selected service provider using the remote method invocation.

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