Reliable updating for a service oriented architecture

• US 20060080419A1
• Filed: 09/07/2005
• Published: 04/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Kasi, Jayaram, Mihic, Matthew, Urhan, Tolga, Kapoor, Chet, Aletty, Ashok, Patrick, Paul B.
• Application Number:
  US11/221,000
• Publication Number:
  US 20060080419A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0681 Configuration of triggering conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5003 Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5074 Handling of user complaints or trouble tickets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06

Abstract

A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture, including in one embodiment a method for configuring at least one service proxy, comprising: providing a configuration to a service bus segment, accepting a response from the service bus segment wherein the response indicates whether or not the configuration can be applied to a service bus segment that provided the response, and instructing the service bus segment to either commit the configuration or to cancel the configuration, wherein the commit instruction is provided if each accepted response indicates success. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims.

Claims

1. A method for configuring a service proxy, comprising:

providing a configuration information to a plurality of service bus segments;

accepting responses from each of the plurality of service bus segments, wherein each of the responses indicates whether or not the configuration information can be successfully applied to that particular service bus segment; and

instructing the plurality of service bus segments to either commit the configuration or to cancel the configuration, wherein the instruction to commit the configuration is provided if each accepted response indicates that the configuration information can be successfully applied.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration information is a delta of information between a first configuration information and a second configuration information.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising applying the configuration information to the service proxy when the commit instruction is provided.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration information includes at least one action to configure at least one component associated with the service proxy.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein an action is an instruction to one of delete a component, create a component, modify a component, or rename a component.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein a component is one of:

a service definition for a service proxy, a message transformation, a message processing pipeline, a message processing stage in a message processing pipeline, a routing table, a message validation process, a message logging process, a message tracking process, a performance monitor, an error handler, a message authorization process, or a message authentication process.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein a service proxy is an intermediary between a client and one of a service or another service proxy.

8. A system for configuring a service proxy, comprising:

a logic capable of performing the following steps;

providing a configuration information to a plurality of service bus segments;

accepting responses from each of the plurality of service bus segments, wherein each of the responses indicates whether or not the configuration information can be successfully applied to that particular service bus segment; and

instructing the plurality of service bus segments to either commit the configuration or to cancel the configuration, wherein the instruction to commit the configuration is provided if each accepted response indicates that the configuration information can be successfully applied.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the configuration information is a delta of information between a first configuration information and a second configuration information.

10. The system of claim 8, further comprising the steps of applying the configuration information to the service proxy when the commit instruction is provided.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the configuration information includes at least one action to configure at least one component associated with the service proxy.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein an action is an instruction to one of delete a component, create a component, modify a component, or rename a component.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein a component is one of:

a service definition for a service proxy, a message transformation, a message processing pipeline, a message processing stage in a message processing pipeline, a routing table, a message validation process, a message logging process, a message tracking process, a performance monitor, an error handler, a message authorization process, or a message authentication process.

14. The system of claim 8 wherein a service proxy is an intermediary between a client and one of a service or another service proxy.

15. A computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed cause the computer to perform the steps of:

providing a configuration information to a plurality of service bus segments;

accepting responses from each of the plurality of service bus segments, wherein each of the responses indicates whether or not the configuration information can be successfully applied to that particular service bus segment; and

instructing the plurality of service bus segments to either commit the configuration or to cancel the configuration, wherein the instruction to commit the configuration is provided if each accepted response indicates that the configuration information can be successfully applied.