Event broker for an improved application server platform for telecom-based applications

A method for providing an application server for telecom-based applications, comprising:

• providing at least one computer, including a computer readable medium and processor;
• organizing a plurality of application servers, executing on the at least one computer, in a cluster, wherein the plurality of application servers includes a first application server that includes an event broker distributed across the cluster, said event broker providing a distributed publish-subscribe mechanism that is a generic interface to the plurality of application servers in the cluster;
• filtering events, by the event broker, with event attributes by way of matching criteria;
• dispatching events, by the event broker, to specific listeners based on the criteria;
• and
• providing distributed class loading with an OSGi-type of class loading framework, wherein marshalling and un-marshalling classes are sent from one virtual machine (VM) instance with a specific class loader graph to another VM instance with a different class loader graph.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the steps of:

• providing at least one computer, including a computer readable medium and processor;
• organizing a plurality of application servers, executing on the at least one computer, in a cluster, wherein the plurality of application servers includes a first application server that includes an event broker distributed across the cluster, said event broker providing a distributed publish-subscribe mechanism that is a generic interface to the plurality of application servers in the cluster;
• filtering events, by the event broker, with event attributes by way of matching criteria;
• and
• dispatching events, by the event broker, to specific listeners based on the criteria
• providing distributed class loading with an OSGi-type of class loading framework, wherein marshalling and un-marshalling classes are sent from one virtual machine (VM) instance with a specific class loader graph to another VM instance with a different class loader graph.