Oracle International Corporation

Matthew Bookman

Shehzaad Nakhoda

Raymond K Ng

Seshu Adunuthula

Mala Anand

Ankur Sharma

Joseph C Pistritto

Tsung-Jen Chou

Robert Pang

Teresita Katrina Montinola

John Francis Haverty

Magnus Mard Lonnroth

A web server configured to respond to client requests over a network such as the World Wide Web includes a web listener having a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) daemon, a plurality of extension programs configured to perform respective operations, and a web request broker configured to identify one of the programs for responding to a client request, and determine the availability of an instance of the identified program. The web request broker maintains control of multiple instances of each server extension program to provide enhanced server operation without overwhelming server resources. The web request broker maintains a minimum number of instances of the identified program in memory, each executed in its own address space. The web request broker determines whether an available instance of the identified program is available from an existing number of instances, and selectively initiates a new instance of the program if no other instance is available. If no instance is available and the existing number of instances exceeds the maximum prescribed number, then the web request broker returns the reply to the web listener to send a reply over the network that the request was not processed.

Web request broker controlling multiple processes

A method and apparatus for generating dynamic Web pages is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention claims a method and apparatus for generating dynamic Web pages on a Web server by invoking and executing predefined procedural packages stored in a database. The claimed invention receives an object request on the Web server and activates a Web agent on the Web server based on the object request. The Web agent invokes and executes the predefined procedural package to retrieve data from a data repository, and then formats the retrieved data as HTML output.

Method and apparatus for generating dynamic web pages by invoking a

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