Patent ID: 7287074
Filing Date: 2007-10-23
Classification: G06F,H04L,H05B

Abstract:
1. A method for communicating between a server resource and a client resource when the client resource is watching a property of the server resource in a distributed computing environment including a communications bus, a bus manager having at least one bus management component, at least one server node and at least one client node interconnected via said communications bus, comprising: first registering with the bus manager by the client resource to track a property of a server resource, wherein the property of the server resource can be set during execution of a function of the server resource, wherein said first registering includes determining that the property of the server resource is available; after the client receives notification from the bus manager that the server resource is instantiated, second registering by the client resource with the server resource to watch the property of the server resource; and when the property of the server resource is set, invoking by the server resource a property set function of the client resource that performs at least one function based on the setting of the property of the server resource.