International Business Machines Corporation

Michael Friess

Graham Castree Charters

Amanda Elizabeth Chessell

Vernon Maurice Green

Pete Stretton

Jeffrey Blight

Keith B Mantell

Anke Robeller

A method provides real world contexts to computer applications for outputting data describing one or more real world contexts. Components are identified in a computer application which implement instances of real world contexts and application components are updated so that a real world context instance is active during the execution by the application of a function for the real world context instance. Each real world context instance may have an instance identifier and is referenced by type of real world context.

Providing real world contexts to computer applications

A method and system for grouping events is provided in which a plurality of base groups () each define a set of event points. Combined groups () have a set of event points defined by the combination of the event points in combining groups. The combination may be by a union of groups or an exclusion of groups and may combine base groups () and/or combined groups () together. The method and system activate or deactivate groups to enable or disable the generation of events defined by the event points in a group. The generation of events may record event instances () of the event points for analysis, to provide an alert for an event instance of predetermined value, to trigger a further event or activity, or to publish the event instances for the event points.

Method and system for grouping events

The invention relates to a method for counting events in an information technology system which performs one or more threads of executions, wherein an event counter is introduced comprising:

Method for counting events in a computer system

A method and system are provided for delivery of messages. A publishing application publishes a message via a communication infrastructure and one or more subscriber applications receive the message from the communication infrastructure. A message content schema is provided which enables the content parts of a message type to be identified. The communication infrastructure enables the one or more subscriber applications to register interest in selected content parts of the message type and the communication infrastructure obtains a message instance of the message type populated with data of a combined content subset as registered by the one or more subscriber applications. The communication infrastructure then delivers the message instance to a subscriber application including the selected content parts by the subscriber application.

Method and system for message content delivery

The present invention provides a means of monitoring the progress of an IT implementation of a process or activity through a defined set of situation types and event objects corresponding to said situation types whereby, if the IT implementation of the process or activity is changed, provided the event objects corresponding to the defined situation types are still generated by the new IT implementation or are able to be derived from the new IT implementation through mapping and/or the instrumentation of new events, the monitor is able to receive or retrieve said event objects and thus perform its monitoring function. This has the advantage of de-coupling the monitor from the specific IT implementation of the process or activity and thus allows a generic monitoring solution to be provided.

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