System and method for supporting dynamic deployment of executable code in a distributed computing environment

A system for supporting dynamic deployment of executable code in a distributed computing environment, the system comprising:

• a computer system comprising a microprocessor and a memory;
• a node deployed on said computer system as part of said distributed computing environment;
• and
• wherein said node is configured to,
• receive a serialized object from a client, wherein the serialized object comprises:
• a class definition of a new class not present in a class path of the node and including at least part of a definition of the new class from a class file that defines the new class on the client, and
• a captured state of an agent utilizing said new class,
• deserialize the serialized object on the node to retrieve said class definition and said captured state of the agent,
• load the class definition of the new class and captured state of the agent in a portion of said memory allocated to said node;
• generate an instance of the new class on the node using the class definition of the new class loaded in the memory of the node, and
• execute the agent on the node.

A non-transitory computer readable medium including instruction stored thereon for supporting dynamic deployment of executable code from a client to a node in a distributed computing environment, which instructions, when executed cause the node to perform steps comprising:

• receiving at the node a serialized object from the client, wherein the serialized object comprises:
• a class definition of a new class not present in a class path of the node and including at least part of a definition of the new class from a class file that defines the new class on the client, and
• a captured state of an agent utilizing said new class;
• deserializing the serialized object on the node to retrieve said class definition of the new class and said captured state of the agent;
• loading the class definition of the new class and captured state of the agent in memory of the node;
• generating an instance of the new class on the node using the class definition of the new class loaded in the memory of the node;
• and
• executing the agent on the node.