Efficient web services application status self-control system on image-forming device

A computer-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions, wherein execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the steps of:

• determining whether a specified amount of time has passed since a last time that a particular web services application has received a message;
• and
• in response to determining that the specified amount of time has passed since the last time, causing the particular web services application to free at least a portion of memory that is allocated to one or more data structures that the particular web services application uses, thereby making the portion of memory available to one or more other web services applications;
• wherein the particular web services application is not a resource manager that instructs a resource to release memory.

An apparatus for managing a web services application, the apparatus comprising:

• means for determining whether a specified amount of time has passed since a last time that a particular web services application has received a message;
• and
• means for causing, in response to determining that the specified amount of time has passed since the last time, the particular web services application to free at least a portion of memory that is allocated to one or more data structures that the particular web services application uses, thereby making the portion of memory available to one or more other web services applications;
• wherein the particular web services application is not a resource manager that instructs a resource to release memory.