International Business Machines Corporation

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Green Market Square Limited

Jie Qiu

Ying Li

Xiao Zhong

Qing Bo Wang

Tao Yu

Meng Ye

Xing X Fang

Jie Yang

Tian Cheng Liu

Jing Luo

Li Rong Jian

Qi Ming Teng

Jie Y Yang

Cheng Xu

Xiao Lin Zhang

Qi Rong Wang

Berthold Reinwald

John Arthur Pershing, Jr

Ke Wei Sun

Hai Shan Wu

David Alvra Wood, Iii

William J Tracey, Ii

Bentley John Hargrave

Qiming Teng

Xin Hui Li

Yue Huang

Lei Zhi

Quan Long

Yucong Jin

Zhixin Jin

Sarah Higley

Tiancheng Lui

Jia Yin Mao

Ryan William Shugart

Methods and apparatuses for enhancing accessibility of a target application which is for processing topology diagrams are provided. An indication of selecting a target element in a topology diagram may be received. Connection status of the target element may be determined based on topology information of the topology diagram. Connection information of the target element corresponding to the connection status of the target element may be generated. Description information of the target element may be provided to an accessibility assistant application, the description information of the target element at least comprising the connection information of the target element.

Enhancing accessibility of topology diagram-related applications

The present invention provides a method, Web server and computer system for converging a desktop application and a Web application. The method may comprise: in response to a request from a client user for using a target desktop application, starting a desktop application initialization process on the Web server and determining an appropriate corresponding hosting server for the user; preparing and provisioning desktop application environment on the corresponding hosting server and starting the target desktop application; transmitting the corresponding hosting server's address to the client so as to make desktop application interaction between the client and the corresponding hosting server; and in response to the completion of the desktop application interaction, stopping and exiting the target desktop application on the corresponding hosting server.

Method, server and system for converging desktop application and web application

A method, Web server and computer system for converging a desktop application and a Web application. The method includes: in response to a request from a client user for using a target desktop application, starting a desktop application initialization process on the Web server and determining an appropriate corresponding hosting server for the user; preparing and provisioning desktop application environment on the corresponding hosting server and starting the target desktop application; transmitting the corresponding hosting server's address to the client to make desktop application interaction between the client and the corresponding hosting server; and in response to the completion of the desktop application interaction, stopping and exiting the target desktop application on the corresponding hosting server. The client user is provided with a unified Web console for accessing desktop applications and Web applications and Web files can be shared between the desktop applications and the Web applications.

Techniques are disclosed for workflow based high availability analysis in computing systems. For example, a computer-implemented method for analyzing an information network infrastructure to identify one or more availability weak points includes the following steps. A workflow specification is provided based on one or more user-visible processes and an application topology. Service workflows associated with the specification are mapped from the application topology to the infrastructure to generate a workflow data structure. An availability weak point analysis is performed in accordance with the workflow data structure to determine one or more optimal high availability parameters for one or more deployed components of the infrastructure. The one or more optimal high availability parameters are applied in the infrastructure so as to substantially eliminate the one or more availability weak points.

Method and apparatus for workflow based high availability analysis

A method and system for placing database. The method includes: receiving a request of creating a new database; determining whether there is a need to migrate current database among current virtual machines based on resource demand and free resource in the current virtual machines; determining database placement plan based on the resource demand, migration strategy and migration cost associated with the migration strategy in response to whether there is a need to migrate the database; and executing the database placement plan. The invention can help a database service provider to optimize database layout in database provision through database migration.

Placing a database

A method and a system of associating a runtime event with a component. The method includes catching the runtime event; catching the context of the current running environment and determining the current component based on said context; and getting the associating policy of current component and determining the responsible component associated with said runtime event based on said associating policy.

Method and system of associating a runtime event with a component

Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and apparatuses for enabling cluster scaling. Specifically, there is disclosed a method of recording a context of configuration for an initial node of a cluster, comprising: retrieving at least one file to be used for configuring the initial node; and recording a context while configuring the initial node using the at least one file, the recorded context being information on the configuration of the initial node and to be used for enabling addition of a new node into the cluster. There is also disclosed a method of enabling addition of a new node into a cluster. Corresponding apparatuses are also disclosed. According to embodiments of the present invention, the efficiency of improving cluster scaling may be effectively improved.

Enabling cluster scaling

A method of sharing virtual machine resources. The method includes: in response to at least one user logging in to the virtual machine, monitoring file operations taken by the user in the virtual machine; recording the types of file operations; in response to the user logging out from the virtual machine, restoring the virtual machine back to the original state at the time when the user logged in to the virtual machine according to the recorded types of file operations; and in response to receiving a request for virtual machine resources, assigning one of the virtual machines which is idle and restored back to the original state to the requesting user.

Assigning restored virtual machine based on past application usage of requesting user

A method, Web server and computer system are provided for converging a desktop application and a Web application. The method includes in response to a request from a client user for using a target desktop application, starting a desktop application initialization process on the Web server and determining an appropriate corresponding hosting server for the user; preparing and provisioning desktop application environment on the corresponding hosting server and starting the target desktop application; transmitting the corresponding hosting server's address to the client so as to make desktop application interaction between the client and the corresponding hosting server; and in response to the completion of the desktop application interaction, stopping and exiting the target desktop application on the corresponding hosting server. The client user is provided with a unified Web console for accessing desktop applications and Web applications, and Web files are shared between the desktop applications and the Web applications.

A method for determining a suspect memory leak, including: sampling the throughput and memory usage of an application server; based on the sampled throughput, monitoring whether the throughput decrease continually, and based on the sampled memory usage, monitoring whether the memory usage remains stable within a predefined range; in response to a continual decrease of the throughput and the memory usage remaining stable within the predetermined range, determining that the application server is suspected of having a memory leak. Using the solution of the present invention can free an administrator of the burden of artificially identifying suspect servers, can identify a suspect server during runtime and further determine whether it actually has a memory leak.

Method and apparatus for detecting a suspect memory leak

A partition-based method for diagnosing memory leaks in Java systems, comprising dividing heap memory of a Java virtual machine into a plurality of partitions based on a partition plan, wherein each partition has at least one partition owner; monitoring the status of the respective partitions to determine whether there is a partition in which the memory space is exhausted; and if there is a partition in which the memory space is exhausted, determining that the memory leak may occur in the partition and analyzing the partition to obtain leaked objects and objects related to the leaked objects. The present invention also provides a partition-based apparatus for diagnosing memory leak in Java systems.

Partition-based method and apparatus for diagnosing memory leak in java systems

A method and apparatus for discovering application configuration files in a system. The method includes the steps of: obtaining a process identifier of an application in concern; comparing the obtained process identifier with a process identifier of a process for operating configuration files in the system; and determining configuration files to be the configuration files of the application in concern if the obtained process identifier is identical to the process identifier of a process for operating the configuration files in the system. Application configuration files can be automatically discovered and thereby monitored, such that the change of the application configuration files can be effectively and accurately detected, so as to facilitate a user to perform various subsequent operations.

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