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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
May. 08, 1997
Andrew John Bainbridge, Winchester, GB;
Stephen James Cocks, Chandlers Ford, GB;
Donald Francis Ferguson, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Thomas Freund, Winchester, GB;
Avraham Leff, New Hempstead, NY (US);
Glyn Normington, Winchester, GB;
James Thomas Rayfield, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Robert Anthony Storey, Southampton, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of performing workload management within an object-oriented client/server computing environment wherein one of a plurality of servers is chosen to satisfy a client request based on at least one workload management policy, said method, which takes place within the client, includes steps of: deciding whether a client application program has issued a request for a server to do some work; forming an extended object reference based on said request, said extended object reference having, in addition to a server address field and an object key field, at least one additional field; accessing workload management policy data based on said extended object reference; and selecting one of said plurality of servers based on said accessed workload management policy data.