Patent ID: 7398370
Filing Date: 2008-07-08
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus as a first computer in a system including a plurality of computers each connected to a network, a second computer executing a directory service program, the directory service program including a remote reference representing a network address of each of the plurality of computers, comprising: a program processing unit configured to execute a server program described as an object-oriented language executed by a platform independent machine language; a monitor unit configured to monitor a change of a network address of the first computer while the server program is operating; a network address acquisition unit configured to acquire a new network address of the first computer when said monitor unit detects the change of the network address of the first computer; a remote reference control unit configured to create a remote reference of the first computer when the server program is generated in the first computer, the remote reference including the network address and a port number of the first computer, to register the remote reference in the directory service program of the second computer, a third computer referring to the remote reference in the second computer through the network to access the server program, and to update the network address of the remote reference in the second computer by using the new network address; an HTTP server configured to store a stub class describing a procedure necessary for the third computer to process the server program received from the first computer; and a class loader configured to store a location address of the stub class in a codebase.