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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1998
Craig W. Bryant, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Todd M. Goin, Loveland, CO (US);
Thomas J. Moos, Windsor, CO (US);
Douglas W. Steele, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method provide for the execution of object-oriented languages, and more particularly increase the performance of Java application execution. The performance increase of Java application execution is achieved by first moving the Java application code into a Java server. The Java server utilizes the application code and functions as a library of classes and methods. The Java server is accessed by an object file (proxy), that is setup to access the correct Java server process. Next, when an application is to be executed, the object file calls the Java server process that forks itself and then has the child server run the already loaded classes and methods. Thus, the Java classes and methods are loaded only once when the Java virtual machine is started. With large classes and methods, it is faster to connect up to the already running Java server and have the already running Java server fork a child server to execute the correct classes and methods than it is to start and load the Java virtual machine, and execute the original classes and methods.