CODE MODIFICATION OF RULE-BASED IMPLEMENTATIONS

• US 20120005649A1
• Filed: 06/30/2010
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation, International Business Machines SA (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lavin, Matt
• Granted Patent: US 8,621,427 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/106
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/52 Binary to binary
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44578 Preparing or optimising for loading

Abstract

Code compatibility provisions are provided. These may include identifying coding that is incompatible with a rule-based environment, searching replacement code solutions for compatible code and identifying a replacement code solution, manipulating the identified incompatible code using the identified replacement code solution, and, after manipulating the incompatible code with the replacement code solution, loading the services across a rule-based environment.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture comprising:

a non-volatile computer readable medium, the computer readable medium storing instructions thereon for analyzing code being provided across a cluster of servers, the instructions, which when executed, comprising;

during the process of loading services, identifying coding that is incompatible with a server cluster environment;

searching replacement code solutions for code compatible with a server cluster environment;

identifying a replacement code solution;

manipulating the identified incompatible code using the identified replacement code solution; and

after manipulating the incompatible code with the replacement code solution, to render the incompatible code compatible, loading the services, with the now compatible code, across a cluster server environment.

2. The article of claim 1 wherein the identified code is bytecode and wherein the replacement code is bytecode.

3. The article of claim 1 storing instructions, which when executed, further comprise:

after searching replacement code solutions for code and failing to identify a replacement code solution, seeking replacement code solutions from a different source.

4. The article of claim 3 wherein the services are loaded onto a server and wherein the different source is a server administrator.

5. The article of claim 1 storing instructions, which when executed further comprise:

developing a replacement code solution by calling and applying a code compatibility algorithm.

6. The article of claim 1 storing instructions, which when executed, further comprise:

providing code, identified as incompatible, to a system administrator; and

checking for instructions to disregard a replacement code solution for the code identified as incompatible to the system administrator.

7. The article of claim 1 wherein identifying coding includes considering bytecode and wherein the bytecode is presented to the class loader of a primary server.

8. A method comprising:

during the process of loading services on a server, identifying coding that is incompatible with a server cluster environment;

searching replacement code solutions for code compatible with a server cluster environment;

identifying a replacement code solution;

manipulating the identified incompatible code using the identified replacement code solution; and

after manipulating the incompatible code with the replacement code solution, to render the incompatible code compatible, loading the services, with the now compatible code, across a cluster server environment.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the identified code is bytecode and wherein the replacement code is bytecode.

10. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

after searching replacement code solutions for code and failing to identify a replacement code solution, seeking replacement code solutions from a different source.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the different source is a system administrator.

12. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

developing a replacement code solution by calling and applying a code compatibility algorithm 11 wherein the common traits for grouped attributes include a shared range of time required to serialize the grouped attribute.

13. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

providing code identified as incompatible to a system administrator; and

checking for instructions to disregard a replacement code solution for the code identified as incompatible to the system administrator.

14. The method of claim 8 wherein identifying coding includes considering bytecode and wherein the bytecode is presented to the class loader of a primary server.

15. A computer comprising:

a non-volatile computer readable medium, the computer readable medium storing instructions thereon for analyzing code being provided across a cluster of servers, the instructions, which when executed, comprising;

identifying coding, during the process of loading services, that is incompatible with a server cluster environment;

searching replacement code solutions for code compatible with a server cluster environment;

identifying a replacement code solution;

manipulating the identified incompatible code using the identified replacement code solution; and

after manipulating the incompatible code with the replacement code solution, to render the incompatible code compatible, loading the services, with the now compatible code, across a cluster server environment.

16. The computer of claim 15 wherein the identified code is bytecode and wherein the replacement code is bytecode.

17. The computer of claim 15 storing instructions, which when executed, further comprise:

after searching replacement code solutions for code and failing to identify a replacement code solution, seeking replacement code solutions from a different source.

18. The computer of claim 17 wherein the different source is a system administrator.

19. The computer of claim 15 storing instructions, which when executed further comprise:

developing a replacement code solution by calling and applying a code compatibility algorithm.

20. The computer of claim 15 storing instructions, which when executed, further comprise:

providing code identified as incompatible to a system administrator; and

checking for instructions to disregard a replacement code solution for the code identified as incompatible to the system administrator.