Patent ID: 8856352
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for supporting session replication in a server cluster, comprising: receiving, via a primary application server, a request associated with a session from a client; replicating, via the primary application server, session information associated with the session in the request to a secondary application server using an underlying transport protocol which comprises one-way remote method invocation (RMI) session replication based on a socket direct protocol (SDP) between a first SDP socket on the primary application server and a second SDP socket on the secondary application server, wherein the underlying transport protocol guarantees that the session information is transmitted to the secondary application server once a return message from a network socket associated with the underlying transport protocol is received at the primary application server, and wherein, in accordance with the underlying transport protocol, responding, via the primary application server, to the client based on the session information without waiting for an acknowledgement from the secondary application server.