Unifying realtime and static data for presenting over a web service

A method of presenting data over a Web service interface, comprising:

• establishing, by a first computer process, a first persistent transmission control protocol (TCP) network connection between the first computer process and a second computer process;
• dynamically allocating, by the second computer process, memory in response to receipt of static data over the first persistent TCP network connection from the first computer process;
• establishing, by a third computer process, a second persistent transmission control protocol (TCP) network connection between the third computer process and the second computer process;
• updating, by the second computer process, the memory in response to receipt of dynamic data received over the second persistent TCP network connection from the third computer process;
• and
• enabling, by the second computer process, a Web server to access the updated data for presentation by the Web service interface,
• wherein the static data identifies a given entity and the dynamic data includes metric data provided for the entity.

A computer program product for presenting data over a Web service interface, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor, to perform method steps comprising instructions for:

• establishing, by a first computer process, a persistent transmission control protocol (TCP) network connection between the first computer process and a second computer process;
• the second computer process dynamically allocating memory in response to receipt of static data over the persistent TCP network connection from the first computer process;
• the second computer process updating the memory in response to receipt of dynamic data received over the persistent TCP network connection from the first computer process;
• the second computer process enabling a Web server to access the updated data for presentation by the Web service,
• wherein the static data identifies a given entity and the dynamic data includes metric data provided for the entity.