Object-oriented system, method and article of manufacture for a client-server failure reporting process

• US 6,266,709 B1
• Filed: 07/01/1996
• Issued: 07/24/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Gish, Sheri L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Banankhah, Majid
• Assistant Examiner(s): CALDWELL, PATRICIA G
• Application Number:
  US08/675,250
• Time in Patent Office: 1,849 Days
• Field of Search: 395/680, 395/200.32, 707/104, 709/300-305, 709/310-332
• US Class Current: 719/315
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

An interprise computing manager in which an application is composed of a client (front end) program which communicates utilizing a network with a server (back end) program. The client and server programs are loosely coupled and exchange information using the network. The client program is composed of a User Interface (UI) and an object-oriented framework (Presentation Engine (PE) framework). The UI exchanges data messages with the framework. The framework is designed to handle two types of messages: (1) from the UI, and (2) from the server (back end) program via the network. The framework includes a component, the mediator which manages messages coming into and going out of the framework. The system includes software for a client computer, a server computer and a network for connecting the client computer to the server computer which utilize an execution framework code segment configured to couple the server computer and the client computer via the network, by a plurality of client computer code segments resident on the server, each for transmission over the network to a client computer to initiate coupling; and a plurality of server computer code segments resident on the server which execute on the server in response to initiation of coupling via the network with a particular client utilizing the transmitted client computer code segment for communicating via a particular communication protocol. A runtime error and execution data logger is coupled to the runtime error and execution data logger and to the server back end computer code segment. A runtime error and execution data logger is coupled with an execution data reporting service and to the server back end computer code segment for tracking errors.

Claims

1. A distributed computer system, comprising:

(a) a client computer code segment resident on a client computer node, the client computer code segment containing Java code and being associated with a single application program initiated on the client computer node;

(b) a server computer code segment resident on a server computer node coupled to the client computer node, the server computer code segment being associated with the single application program initiated on the client computer node; and

(c) an execution framework code segment configured to couple the client code segment and the server code segment to facilitate message transfer between the client computer code segment and the server computer code segment, wherein message transfer involves exchange of code segments of the single application program which contain only executable computer programming instructions, thereby enabling execution of the single application program in a distributed manner between the client computer node and the server computer node, wherein one copy of the single application program is distributed between the client computer node and the server computer node, the execution framework code segment including;

(1) a runtime error and execution data logger; and

(2) a runtime error and execution data reporting service coupled to the runtime error and execution data logger and to the server computer code segment.

2. The distributed computer system as recited in claim 1, in which the execution framework code segment is layered over a communication protocol.

3. The distributed computer system as recited in claim 2, in which the communication protocol comprises the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).

4. The distributed computer system as recited in claim 1, including a web connection which facilitates communication from the client computer node to the server computer node.

5. The distributed computer system as recited in claim 1, including a communication protocol corresponding to the client code segment and the server code segment which is supported by a communication library on the client computer node and the server computer node.

6. The distributed computer system as recited in claim 1, including a code segment which authenticates an initial request from a client computer before downloading a client code segment and initiating secure communication.

7. The distributed computer system as recited in claim 4, wherein the web is the Internet.

8. A method for distributing computing between a server computer system and a client computer system coupled by a network, comprising the steps of:

(a) storing a client computer code segment resident on a client computer node, the client computer code segment containing Java code and being associated with a single application program initiated on the client computer node;

(b) storing a server computer code segment resident on a server computer node coupled to the client computer node, the server computer code segment being associated with the single application program initiated on the client computer node; and

(c) invoking an execution framework code segment configured to couple the client code segment and the server code segment to facilitate message transfer between the client computer code segment and the server computer code segment, wherein message transfer involves exchange of code segments of the single application program which contain only executable computer programming instructions, thereby enabling execution of the particular application program in a distributed manner between the client computer node and the server computer node, wherein one copy of the single application program is distributed between the client computer node and the server computer node, the execution framework code segment including;

(1) a runtime error and execution data logger; and

(2) a runtime error and execution data reporting service coupled to the runtime error and execution data logger and to the server computer code segment.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, in which the execution framework code segment is layered over a communication protocol.

10. The method as recited in claim 9, in which the communication protocol comprises the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).

11. The method as recited in claim 8, including the step of enabling a web connection which facilitates communication from the client computer node to the server computer node.

12. The method as recited in claim 8, including the step of initiating a communication protocol corresponding to the client code segment and the server code segment which is supported by a communication library on the client computer node and the server computer node.

13. The method as recited in claim 8, including the step of authenticating an initial request from a client computer before downloading a client code segment and initiating secure communication.

14. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the web is the Internet.

15. A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for enabling a distributed computer system, comprising:

(a) a client computer code segment resident on a client computer node, the client computer code segment containing Java code and being associated with a single application program initiated on the client computer node;

(b) a server computer code segment resident on a server computer node coupled to the client computer node, the client computer code segment being associated with a single application program initiated on the client computer node; and

(c) an execution framework code segment configured to couple the client code segment and the server code segment to facilitate message transfer between the client computer code segment and the serve computer code segment, wherein message transfer involves exchange of code segments of the single application program which contain only executable computer programming instructions, thereby enabling execution of the single application program in a distributed manner between the client computer node and the server computer node, wherein one copy of the single application program is distributed between the client computer node and the server computer node, the execution framework code segment including;

(1) a runtime error and execution data logger; and

(2) a runtime error and execution data reporting service coupled to the runtime error and execution data logger and to the server computer code segment.

16. The computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for enabling a distributed computer system as recited in claim 15, in which the execution framework code segment is layered over a communication protocol.

17. The computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for enabling a distributed computer system as recited in claim 16, in which the execution framework code segment is layered over a communication protocol.

18. The computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for enabling a distributed computer system as recited in claim 15, including a web connection which facilitates communication from the client computer node to the server computer node.

19. The computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for enabling a distributed computer system as recited in claim 15, including a communication protocol corresponding to the client code segment and the server code segment which is supported by a communication library on the client computer node and the server computer node.

20. The computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for enabling a distributed computer system as recited in claim 15, including a code segment which authenticates an initial request from a client computer before downloading a client code segment and initiating secure communication.

21. The computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for enabling a distributed computer system as recited in claim 18, wherein the web is an Internet.