British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

Paul M Robson

Gavin Peter Willingham

Tim Griffith

Tim Griffiths

An interface is provided between a receiving component of a server application and a remote application, the receiving component being operable to receive serialized objects from the remote application via the interface. The interface comprises: a module for ascertaining if a piece of code associated with the received object is locally stored and directly available to the server application, and a store for locally storing the associated piece of code in the event that it is not already locally stored and directly available to the server application.

Interfacing between a receiving component of a server application and a remote application

A server computer system comprising: means for permitting a first and a second version of a component or application to run on the server computer system simultaneously; means for identifying one of the versions as currently applicable and the other as not currently applicable; and means for connecting a requesting client to the currently applicable version in response to a request by the client to access the component or application.

Server computer system running versions of an application simultaneously

A processing system for assisting computer programs running in a distributed computer system is disclosed, the processing system including: a detector for detecting that a running program has encountered a problem caused by not having direct access to another piece of code; a requisitioner for obtaining the other piece of code from another part of the system; and a controller for controlling the computer to re-run the program from a point before the problem was encountered, in such a way that it has the necessary direct access to the other piece of code.

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Ipswich, United Kingdom

Paul M Robson