Method and system for navigationally displaying HTTP session entry and exit points

• US 8,032,858 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2007
• Issued: 10/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Barcia, Roland, Peterson, Robert Ross, Bhogal, Kulvir Singh
• Primary Examiner(s): Khatri; Anil
• Application Number:
  US11/846,505
• Publication Number:
  US 20090064102A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,498 Days
• Field of Search: 717100-105, 717114-116, 717108-109, 707/776, 707/802
• US Class Current: 717/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3604 Software analysis for verifying properties of programs byte-code verification G06F9/44589
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3636 by tracing the execution of the program
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/75 Structural analysis for program understanding

Abstract

A monitoring tool continuously monitors for insertion, call or deletion of objects from a session. Display of this information shows any get object, set object or remove object operations in the session and shows the entry and exit points for each such object, thus assisting the user whenever objects inserted or called remain in the session and are not removed, thus allowing the user to prevent any data buildup in the session. The display is performed in a navigational view or “state diagram” form of view which is constructed by polling the filesystem content and building a navigational view of the overall states and interactions occurring within the session.

Claims

1. An enhanced interactive development environment (IDE) computer hardware system for identifying inserted and unremoved objects, for a user session, within source code, comprising:

a storage device having stored therein a meta data file; and

a processor, wherein the processor is configured to perform;

inspecting newly written source code for the user session to identify any interactions by the code, with the user session, where object entry, object exit, or object read points occur,

storing, within the meta data file, the identified points,

comparing content of the newly written source code with said meta data file,

removing a point from said meta data file upon the comparing finding that an object referenced by said point has been removed from said user session,

displaying the identity of remaining points in said meta data file on a navigational diagram that illustrates where said remaining points occur within the session, and

displaying said object entry, object exit, or object read points in said session in association with an identity of a particular instruction which caused a creation of said object entry, object exit, or object read point.

2. The enhanced IDE computer hardware system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to perform:

an identity of any instruction creating one of the remaining points in said meta data file.

3. A method for identifying inserted and unremoved objects, for a user session, within source code, comprising:

inspecting said code for a new session access instruction, within the code, that either enters, reads, or removes an object from said user session;

storing an object entry, object exit, or object read point of said new session access instruction in a meta data file;

comparing content of said meta data file with content of said code;

identifying an object referenced by an object entry, object exit, or object read point remaining within said meta data file;

displaying object entry, object exit, or object read points remaining within said meta data file on a navigational diagram that illustrates where said remaining points occurs within the session; and

removing from said meta data file a stored object entry, object exit, or object read point of an object found during the comparing as being not within said user session at the time of the comparing.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

displaying an identity of any session interaction instruction creating one of the remaining points in said meta data file.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

highlighting the remaining points.