Patent ID: 8028002

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: an application server instance including a dispatcher node in communication with at least one application server node, wherein the application server node includes at least one core service; the application server instance including a plurality of virtual machines, wherein the dispatcher node is included within a first virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines and the application server node is included within a second virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines; a non-persistent storage unit representing a memory implementation of the second virtual machine included in the application server node; and a hierarchical memory representation of a hierarchical naming structure stored within the non-persistent storage unit, wherein the hierarchical memory representation includes a plurality of hash tables stored via two levels of nesting, wherein a first hash table from the plurality of hash tables storing a plurality of containers is stored as a first level in two levels of nesting, and wherein each container from the plurality of containers includes at least one hash table from the plurality of hash tables storing at least one object, wherein the at least one hash table is stored in the first hash table as a second level in the two levels of nesting.