Method for controlling at least one applications process and corresponding computer program product

• US 8,543,435 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2008
• Issued: 09/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Bregant-Belin, Pierre
• Primary Examiner(s): Jenaty, Romain
• Application Number:
  US12/743,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20100269113A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,782 Days
• Field of Search: 705/7.11
• US Class Current: 705/7.11
• 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 application process within a hub formed by one or more servers comprising a plurality of application services, said method comprising:

receiving in a work station a request for activating at least one application process by the work station;

transmitting from said work station to said hub at least one piece of information representing a start of activation of said application process called activation information;

executing each of said application services within said hub;

transmitting a piece of information representing an end of execution of each of said application services from said hub to said work station, within a time shorter than a time of timeout related to the execution of each of said application services; and

transmitting at least one piece of information representing an end of activation of said application process from said hub to said work station, taking account of each of said pieces of information representing an end of execution of each of said application services.

2. The method according to claim 1, comprising, prior to 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 to be transmitted from said hub to said work station.

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

4. The method according to claim 2 wherein, at the end of executing the synchronous service, the method includes performing another step of executing, on said hub, 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 application process, so as to provide an indicator according to which said application process is being executed and cannot be activated again before the end of its current execution.

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

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

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

means for executing each of said application services;

means for transmitting a piece of information representing an end of execution of each of said application services within a time shorter than a time of timeout related to the execution of each of said application services; and

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

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

receiving a request for activating at least one application process;

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

executing each of said application services;

transmitting a piece of information representing an end of execution of each of said application services within a time shorter than a time of timeout related to the execution of each of said application services; and

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