International Business Machines Corporation

Mark Patrick Nuttall

Graham Castree Charters

Timothy James Ward

Ian Robinson

Alasdair Nottingham

Jeremy Peter Hughes

David A Draper

Wolfgang Eibach

Robert William Phippen

John Christopher Hawkins

John Bryan Ibbotson

Karl-Heinz Knobl

Christof Menzenbach

A method, computer apparatus and computer program product for bytecode weaving is described herein. The method includes determining when a code module such as an OSGi bundle that requires bytecode weaving becomes available for loading into a system. Code associated with the code module is loaded. This code may be part of the module itself or part of a separate entity, such as an OSGI bundle fragment, but does not require weaving. Responsive to loading the code associated with the code module, a reference is received to the entity responsible for loading the code associated with the code module. A code entity (which does require weaving) within the code module is identified and a woven set of bytes are provided to the code loading entity identified via the returned reference. Consequently, the woven set of bytes represents a transformed version of the identified code entity.

Method, system and computer program for bytecode weaving

A method, apparatus and computer program are disclosed for modifying an application comprising a plurality of modules. A user is presented with a list of modules. The user is able to specify input regarding any permitted version modifications for the modules listed. It is then determined whether the requested modifications are possible with one or more failure messages being output when any of the requested modifications are not possible. At least one of the failure messages is used to enable modification of the initial input provided by the user. In one embodiment, information is provided to the user based on one or more failure messages in order to enable the user to modify their choices. In another embodiment, the initial input is automatically modified. A permitted version modification may be, for example, a version upgrade, a version downgrade, and an indication that there is no preference.

Modifying a multi-module application

Provided are apparatus and a method for establishing communications between a Web client computer in a vehicle and a Web server computer connected to the Internet or an intranet, initiated from a remote Web Browser. The Web Browser sends a request to the server, which invokes a process at the server causing a SMS message to be sent to a telephone connected to the client computer. This SMS message includes an identification of the server process (such as a URL) and causes the client computer to establish communications with the server. This allows the Browser to interact with the client computer via a standard Browser request without the overheads of security exposure of requiring the client to be a Web server. The invention is useful for allowing a remote Browser to interact with a computer controlling a vehicle's electronic control systems.

Apparatus and method for establishing communication in a computer network

Handling processor-intensive operations in a data processing system

Growing community of inventors

Eastleigh, United Kingdom

Mark Patrick Nuttall