US 2004/0002960 A1 · Runtime versioning of information processing systems

Abstract

An information processing system includes a runtime versioning facility which allows for managing its configuration so that modifications made during runtime are propagated and take affect without restarting the system or a portion thereof. This allows the potential for 100% uptime while upgrading such systems. This also provides a system capability to process multiple configuration versions, and to be able to process such versions even while such versions are changing during operation of the information processing systems. For example, a system such as a registry server capable of transactional configuration changes is provided which manages its configuration so that modifications made during runtime are propagated and take affect without restarting the server.

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Dependent claims

A service implementation comprising:

at least one persistent data store;
a configuration manager that is asynchronously updated in correspondence with changes to the at least one persistent data store;
and
a request handling interface that employs a factory to instantiate a handler instance for handling of a particular request, the handler instance being instantiated based on then current factory-specific configuration information of the configuration manager.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Runtime versioning of information processing systems

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Runtime versioning of information processing systems

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Abstract

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