Patent ID: 7580989
Filing Date: 2009-08-25
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. In a computing environment, a method comprising: requesting access points for accessing distributed services that match specified criteria, the access points being requested from a service registry; in response to the request; receiving a plurality of access points to a plurality of distributed services, each of the plurality of distributed services matching the specified criteria, the access points being received from the service registry; maintaining the plurality of access points in a cache, wherein the plurality of access points are maintained in an ordering; receiving a request from a program to provide an access point; in response to the request, selecting a first access point from the cache based on the ordering and returning data of the first access point to the program, the first access point for accessing a first distributed service; receiving information from the program that the first distributed service which is accessed using the first access point has failed; based on the received information that the first distributed service which is accessed using the first access point has failed: wherein the data from the first access point and the data of the second access point comprises a network address of a computer system, wherein the network address can be resolved by some mechanism to an application or a particular instance of an application.