Patent ID: 9632897
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for monitoring components being available in a service framework for providing services on a data processing system, each one of the components submitting invocations of a service interface of the framework, each invocation requesting a change of state of the component, wherein the change of state includes at least one of addition, removal, start, stop and update, wherein the method comprises the steps of: a computer detecting at least part of the invocations by an auxiliary component, wherein the detecting comprises the steps of the computer subscribing the auxiliary component to an event notification service of the framework, and the computer providing an indication of each invocation submitted to the framework by the event notification service to the auxiliary component; and the computer identifying the components according to the corresponding detected invocations, wherein at least one of the components and the auxiliary component comprises a set of JAVA packages.