Adaptive session compression management method, compression manager and session management system

An adaptive session compression management method in an application server, comprising:

• acquiring session state information indicated as needing to be saved from a session manager in the application server and buffering the session state information in a session state information buffer component, wherein the session state information is transferred from the session manager to the session state information buffer component through an interface between the session manager and the session state information buffer component;
• retrieving configuration information set by a user or system administrator from a configuration file, the configuration information comprising a compression threshold, compressors available at the application server, compression methods as a function of CPU utilization, and compression methods as a function of memory utilization, the compression methods comprising best compression, normal compression, fast compression, and no compression methods;
• determining whether the session state information is to be compressed according to a size of the session state information and the configuration information related to the compression thresholds;
• determining a one of the compressors and selecting a one of the compression methods according to at least the memory and the CPU of the application server in case that the session state information needs to be compressed, the selecting of the one of the compression methods comprising identifying a first of the compression methods by comparing an amount of the CPU utilization to a first plurality of thresholds corresponding to each the compression methods, identifying a second of the compression methods by comparing an amount of the memory utilization to a second plurality of thresholds corresponding to each the compression methods, and determining the one of the compression methods to be a one of the first and the second compression methods providing a lowest compression performance;
• instructing the one of the compressors to compress the session state information according to selected compression method in the case that the selected compression method is not the no compression method;
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• storing the session state information at a specified location in the session manager, and in case that the session state information is compressed, storing type information of the determined compressor together with the compressed session state information.

An adaptive session management system in an application server, comprising:

• a session manager for managing and maintaining session state information of users and applications;
• a session state information presentation component for transferring user's session state information between said session manager and an application;
• an interface unit, through which a user or a system administrator of the application server sets configuration information in a configuration file;
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• an adaptive session compression manager having:
• at least one compressor,
• a session state information buffer component for buffering session state information from a session manager of the application server when the session state information is indicated as needing to be saved, wherein the session state information is transferred from the session manager to the session state information buffer component through an interface between the session manager and the session state information buffer component,
• a configuration information acquiring component for acquiring configuration information set by the user or system administrator of the application server from the configuration file, the configuration information comprising a compression threshold, compressors available at the application server, compression methods as a function of CPU utilization, and compression methods as a function of memory utilization, the compression methods comprising best compression, normal compression, fast compression, and no compression methods,
• a compression determining component for determining whether the session state information in the session state information buffer component needs to be compressed according to a size of the session state information and the configuration information related to the compression threshold,
• a compression method determining component for determining a one of the compressors and selecting a one of the compressions method according to the conditions of at least the memory and the CPU of the application server in case that the session state information needs to be compressed and for instructing the determined compressor to compress the session state information according to the selected compression method in the case that the selected compression method is not the no compression method
• wherein the compression method determining component is configured for performing the selecting of the one of the compression methods by identifying a first of the compression methods by comparing an amount of the CPU utilization to a first plurality of thresholds corresponding to each the compression methods, identifying a second of the compression methods by comparing an amount of the memory utilization to a second plurality of thresholds corresponding to each the compression methods, and determining the one of the compression methods to be a one of the first and the second compression methods providing a lowest compression performance.