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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2007
James R. Challenger, Garrison, NY (US);
Louis R. Degenaro, White Plains, NY (US);
James R. Giles, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Rohit Wagle, Elmsford, NY (US);
James R. Challenger, Garrison, NY (US);
Louis R. Degenaro, White Plains, NY (US);
James R. Giles, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Rohit Wagle, Elmsford, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Plug-in configurable middleware is provided for managing distributed applications. The middleware includes at least one core runtime engine configured as a plurality of concurrent instantiations on one or more hosts within a distributed architecture. These hosts can represent separate nodes or a single node within the architecture. Each core runtime engine instance provides the minimum amount of functionality required to support the instantiation of one or more plug-ins within that core runtime engine instance. Each core runtime engine instance is in communication with other concurrent core runtime engine instances and can share the functionality of plug-in instances with the other core runtime engine instances, for example through the use of proxies. A plurality of personalities representing pre-defined functions is defined and one of more of these personalities is associated with each core runtime engine instance. A plurality of pre-defined plug-ins are defined and associated with the personalities.