Patent ID: 8606877

Claim:
A computing system comprising a plurality of computing nodes, the computing system configured such that: each computing node includes a processor configured to execute computer program instructions in a platform independent language, wherein the computing nodes cooperate to form a cluster to support distributed transactional processing; application objects are organized into partitions, wherein each partition is associated with one of the computing nodes as an active node for application data objects of that partition and further associated with at least one of the computing nodes as a replica node for application objects of that partition; the computing nodes are configured such that messages relative to an application object are provided to the active node for the application object as well as to at least one replica node for that application object, for updates; the computing system including a virtual machine integration layer integrating at least one Virtual Machine (VM) with a transaction processing platform that is transparent to the platform independent language; wherein the computer program instructions executed by the cluster of computing nodes collectively accomplish a fully transactional distributed application executing on the at least one virtual machine.