Architecture, system and method for a messaging hub in a real-time web application framework

• US 8,301,718 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2009
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Macken, Luke J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yi, David X
• Application Number:
  US12/626,482
• Publication Number:
  US 20110125823A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,070 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/216
• US Class Current: 709/216
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/545 Gui
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications

Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing a hub in a real-time web application framework is described. In one embodiment, the method includes running applications on a hub server computer system within a real-time web application framework. The method may also include running each application based on configuration parameters associated with each application, the hub server computer system running the applications outside of a web application stack run on a web server computer system of the real-time web application framework.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method:

installing, by hub server computing device of a web application framework, an application plug-in that performs data operations for the web application framework, the application plug-in installed at an entry point of the hub server computing device;

executing, by the hub server computing device, the application plug-in based on configuration parameters associated with the application, wherein the application is executed by the hub server computing device outside of a web application stack executed by a web server computing device of the web application framework in order to provide data processing outside of the web server computing device, wherein executing the application plug-in further comprises;

waking the application plug-in on a periodic basis, the periodic basis defined by application configuration parameters; and

running the application plug-in to obtain data; and

distributing, by the hub server computing device, the obtained data from the plug-in application to a framework widget rendered by a client device, the framework widget having subscriptions to topics for which the messages belong, wherein the distributing further comprises transmitting the obtained data to a message broker communicably coupled to the hub server computing device for routing to the framework widget.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the application plug-in is associated with an application executed by the web application stack of the web server computing device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the hub server computing device executes the application plug-in in conjunction with the web application stack executed by the web server computing device, the hub server computer system operating independently of the web server computing device in the real-time web application framework.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein executing the application plug-in further comprises:

storing the obtained data in at least one of a database or cache memory accessible to the web server computing device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

translating the obtained data to a format appropriate for the message broker.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the topics are each an abstraction of one a plurality of messaging queues implemented by the message broker.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the application plug-in is a producer application that acquires data from a source over a network and sends the acquired data to a message queue managed by a message broker.

8. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that provides instructions, which when executed on a processing system cause the processing system to perform a method comprising:

installing, by hub server computing device of a web application framework, an application plug-in that performs data operations for the web application framework, the application plug-in installed at an entry point of the hub server computing device;

executing, by the hub server computing device, the application plug-in based on configuration parameters associated with the application, wherein the application is executed by the hub server computing device outside of a web application stack executed by a web server computing device of the web application framework in order to provide data processing outside of the web server computing device, wherein executing the application plug-in further comprises;

waking the application plug-in on a periodic basis, the periodic basis defined by application configuration parameters; and

running the application plug-in to obtain data; and

distributing, by the hub server computing device, the obtained data from the plug-in application to a framework widget rendered by a client device, the framework widget having subscriptions to topics for which the messages belong, wherein the distributing further comprises transmitting the obtained data to a message broker communicably coupled to the hub server computing device for routing to the framework widget.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the application plug-in is associated with an application executed by the web application stack of the web server computing.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the hub server computing device executes the application plug-in in conjunction with the web application stack executed by the web server computing device, the hub server computer system operating independently of the web server computing device in the real-time web application framework.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein executing the application plug-in further comprises:

storing the obtained data in at least one of a database or cache memory accessible to the web server computing device.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8, further comprising:

translating the obtained data to a format appropriate for the message broker.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the topics are each an abstraction of one a plurality of messaging queues implemented by the message broker.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the application plug-in is a producer application that acquires data from a source over a network and sends the acquired data to a message queue managed by a message broker.

15. A hub server computing device of a web application framework, the hub server computing device comprising:

a memory to store an application plug-in that performs data operations for the web application framework; and

a processing device communicably coupled to the memory, the processing device configured to;

install the application plug-in at an entry point of the hub server computing device;

execute the application plug-in based on configuration parameters associated with the application, wherein the application is executed by the processing device outside of a web application stack executed by a web server computing device of the web application framework in order to provide data processing outside of the web server computing device, wherein executing the application plug-in further comprises;

waking the application plug-in on a periodic basis, the periodic basis defined by application configuration parameters; and

running the application plug-in to obtain data; and

distribute the obtained data from the plug-in application to a framework widget rendered by a client device, the framework widget having subscriptions to topics for which the messages belong, wherein the distributing further comprises transmitting the obtained data to a message broker communicably coupled to the hub server computing device for routing to the framework widget.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the processing device is further configured to translate the obtained data to a format appropriate for the message broker.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the processing device is further configured to execute the application plug-in in conjunction with the web application stack executed by the web server computing device.