Collocation in a JAVA virtual machine of a media server and a JAVA EE server

• US 8,631,164 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2009
• Issued: 01/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Bhayani, Amit, Kulikov, Oleg
• Primary Examiner(s): Keehn, Richard G
• Application Number:
  US12/395,370
• Publication Number:
  US 20100223323A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,782 Days
• Field of Search: 709/250
• US Class Current: 709/250
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45587 Isolation or security of virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/455 Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1063 Application servers providing network services systems providing special services to telephonic subscribers H04M3/42

Abstract

In one embodiment, a mechanism for collocation in a JAVA virtual machine of a media server and a JAVA EE server is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an integrated application server including a media server and Java™ Enterprise Edition (JAVA EE) deployed in a single Java™ virtual machine (JVM), and one or more management interfaces communicably coupled to the integrated application server.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory;

a processing device to execute a Java™

virtual machine (JVM) from the memory;

an integrated application server deployed in the JVM, the integrated application server comprising;

a media server comprising a plurality of endpoints, the plurality of endpoints each comprising a source or sink of data to facilitate applications of the application server, which integrate voice, video, and data as media, in sending and receiving the media across communication networks for telecommunication purposes;

a Java™

Enterprise Edition (JAVA EE) application server sharing a common microkernel architecture with the media server via installation of each of the plurality of endpoints of the media server as logically-separate microkernel services of the JAVA EE application server; and

one or more controllers registered as logically-separate microkernel services of the JAVA EE application server, the one or more controllers to integrate with the media server and open communication channels with the integrated application server for at least one of applications residing in the JVM or application remote to the JVM; and

one or more management interfaces communicably coupled to the integrated application server, the one or more management interfaces to manage the plurality of endpoints via interactions with JMX MBeans of the plurality of endpoints installed at the logically-separate services of the JAVA EE application server.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the common microkernel architecture is based on Java™

Management Extensions (JMX).

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more management interfaces comprise at least one of internal system application programming interfaces (APIs) or application APIs.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein components of the media server and the JAVA EE application server of the integrated application server communicate via one or more local in-Virtual Machine (VM) pass-by reference semantics.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the JAVA EE is an application building platform that provides one or more facilities that the media server uses, the one or more facilities comprising at least one of JBoss™

cache, Java™

Management Extensions (JMX), Java™

Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI), JavaAssist™

, or JBoss™

clustering.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the media server exports management MBeans into the JAVA EE application server.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein one or more endpoints are implemented in the media server and comprise at least one of Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Announcement, Conference, Echo, or Packet Relay endpoints.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the media server is a Mobicents™

media server.

9. A method, comprising:

creating, by a computing device, an integrated application server comprising;

a media server comprising a plurality of endpoints, the plurality of endpoints each comprising a source or sink of data to facilitate applications of the application server, which integrate voice, video, and data as media, in sending and receiving the media across communication networks for telecommunication purposes;

a Java™

Enterprise Edition (JAVA EE) application server sharing a common microkernel architecture via installation of each of the plurality of endpoints of the media server as logically-separate microkernel services of the JAVA EE application server, wherein the integrated application server is deployed in a single Java™

virtual machine (JVM) by registering the media server as a service in a Java™

Management Extensions (JMX) kernel of the JAVA EE application server; and

one or more controllers registered as logically-separate microkernel services of the JAVA EE application server, the one or more controllers to integrate with the media server and open communication channels with the integrated application server for at least one of applications residing in the JVM or application remote to the JVM; and

connecting, by the computing device, one or more management interfaces with the integrated application server, the one or more management interfaces to manage the plurality of endpoints via interactions with JMX MBeans of the plurality of endpoints installed at the logically-separate services of the JAVA EE application server;

wherein the media server is communicably coupled to an Internet backbone for wireline and wireless telephones.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein components of the media server and the JAVA EE application server of the integrated application server communicate via one or more local in-Virtual Machine (VM) pass-by reference semantics.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising associating one or more controllers with the integrated application server.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more controllers comprise at least one of Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), MEGACO, Media Server Markup Language MSML or JSR 309.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the one or more management interfaces comprise at least one of internal system application programming interfaces (APIs), Controllers APIs, or application APIs.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including data that, when accessed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

creating, by the processing device, an integrated application server comprising;

a media server comprising a plurality of endpoints, the plurality of endpoints each comprising a source or sink of data to facilitate applications of the application server, which integrate voice, video, and data as media, in sending and receiving the media across communication networks for telecommunication purposes;

a Java™

Enterprise Edition (JAVA EE) application server sharing a common microkernel architecture via installation of each of the plurality of endpoints of the media server as logically-separate microkernel services of the JAVA EE application server,

wherein the integrated application server is deployed in a single Java™

virtual machine (JVM) by registering the media server as a service in a Java™

Management Extensions (JMX) kernel of the JAVA EE application server; and

one or more controllers registered as logically-separate microkernel services of the JAVA EE application server, the one or more controllers to integrate with the media server and open communication channels with the integrated application server for at least one of applications residing in the JVM or application remote to the JVM; and

connecting, by the processing device, one or more management interfaces with the integrated application server, the one or more management interfaces to manage the plurality of endpoints via interactions with JMX MBeans of the plurality of endpoints installed at the logically-separate services of the JAVA EE application server;

wherein the media server is communicably coupled to an Internet backbone for wireline and wireless telephones.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the creating further comprises providing a specification of the media server and the one or more controllers as a service in the JMX kernel of the JAVA EE application server.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein associating the one or more controllers comprises the one or more controllers providing interaction capabilities and services to one or more telecommunications protocols.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein components of the media server and the JAVA EE application server of the integrated applicant server communicate via one or more local in-Virtual Machine (VM) pass-by reference semantics.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein one or more endpoints implemented in the media server comprise at least one of Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Announcement, Conference, Echo, or Packet Relay endpoints.