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AssigneeAkamai Technologies, Inc.
InventorsAndrew Thomas Davis, Jay Parikh, Srinivasan Pichai, Eddie Ruvinsky, Daniel Stodolsky, Mark Tsimelzon, William E. Weihl
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An application deployment model for enterprise applications to enable such applications to be deployed to and executed from a globally distributed computing platform, such as an Internet content delivery network (CDN). According to the invention, application developers separate their Web application into two layers: a highly distributed edge layer and a centralized origin layer. In a representative embodiment, the edge layer supports a servlet container that executes a Web tier, typically the presentation layer of a given Java-based application. Where necessary, the edge layer communicates with code running on an origin server to respond to a given request. In an alternative embodiment, the edge layer supports a more fully-provisioned application server that executes both Web tier (e.g., presentation) and Enterprise tier application (e.g., business logic) components. In either case, the inventive framework enables one or more different applications to be deployed to and executed from the edge server on behalf of one or more respective entities.
A method for processing requests to a given application executable in a distributed computing environment, wherein a set of edge servers are deployed in the distributed computing environment to offload processing from one or more origin servers, and wherein the given application has at least a first component and a second component, comprising:
A method for processing requests to a set of Java-based applications executable in a distributed computing environment, wherein a set of edge servers are deployed in the distributed computing environment to offload processing from a set of origin servers, and wherein each Java-based application has at least a first component, comprising:
In an apparatus for use in a content delivery network, the apparatus having a processor, a virtual machine and platform-independent application server code, the improvement comprising:
The apparatus as described in claim 21 wherein a given platform-independent code component is a Web tier component and the application server code instance is a servlet container.
The apparatus as described in claim 22 wherein a given platform-independent code component is an Enterprise tier component and the application server code instance is an application server.
In an apparatus for use in a content delivery network, the apparatus having a processor, a Java virtual machine and a servlet container, the improvement comprising:
A method of executing Java applications operative in a content delivery network (CDN), the content delivery network comprising a distributed set of edge servers and a request routing mechanism for mapping client requests to the edge servers, wherein each application is a multi-tier Java application comprising at least first and second tiers, comprising:
A method of executing platform-independent applications operative in a content delivery network (CDN), the content delivery network comprising a distributed set of edge servers and a request routing mechanism for mapping client requests to the edge servers, each of the edge servers provisioned with application server code, comprising:
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