Patent ID: 8103779

Claim:
A computer system, comprising: a shared storage; a first server process, said first server process servicing a first request pertaining to a said particular session, said first server process storing session information pertaining to said particular session in said shared storage; and a second server process, said second server process servicing a second request pertaining to said particular session, said second server process accessing said session information from said shared storage and using said session information to service said second request; wherein the first server process is configured to execute an application instance that a service engine instantiated from a particular application class of a plurality of different application classes in response to the service engine receiving the first request; wherein the service engine selected the particular application class from the plurality of different application classes based on session information that is contained in the first request, and wherein the first server process is a first instance of a server and the second server process is a second instance of the server.