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FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
       [0001]    The present invention is directed to a system for adaptive and generic bytecode instrumentation for performance monitoring and failure diagnosis tools using load-time or run-time bytecode instrumentation. The placement of instrumentation code is determined at load-time or run-time, taking object-oriented inheritance relationships into account. 
       BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
       [0002]    The increasing number of features demanded from successful applications and getting shorter development cycles increase complexity of applications and dependency on 3 rd  party components and libraries. 
         [0003]    Further, new programming approaches like aspect oriented programming (AOP), which helps mastering source code complexity and thus increase productivity of software development, increase the run-time complexity of applications by adding or altering classes or methods of the application during run-time. 
         [0004]    Bytecode instrumentation based monitoring and diagnosis systems must provide adaptive, flexible instrumentation placement tools to enable comfortable application monitoring in such complex and dynamic environments. 
         [0005]    Such instrumentation placement tools must enable instrumentation placement and modification at class load-time or during run-time. Run-time changes of the application code base or 3 rd  party libraries and components must be managed by the placement tool, e.g. by adding new instrumentation code on-the-fly. The instrumentation tool must cope with different class loading mechanisms, including classes loading from network resources. 
         [0006]    Further, generic instrumentation placement is required, enabling the instrumentation of top-level component interfaces like e.g. the JDBC driver interfaces, regardless of the concrete implementation of the component. The placement tool should be able to instrument any bytecode based application, regardless of the application type (e.g. J2EE, stand-alone or applet) or underlying bytecode based system (e.g. Sun Microsystems&#39;s Java or Microsoft&#39;s .NET). 
         [0007]    Finally, an instrumentation placement tool must not interfere with behavior or functionality of the application by e.g. changing the class load order. 
       DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART 
       [0008]    There are several approaches to filter positions for code instrumentations. One approach, as described in [1] and [2], is to specify methods that are target for instrumentation by explicitly specifying the class that contains the method and the method itself. This approach enables basic run-time adaptable instrumentation if instrumentation code is placed near to run-time, e.g. at class loading time, but it lacks information about the internal inheritance structure of the application. To select classes and methods for instrumentation, a user requires in-depth knowledge of the internal structure of the application and used 3 rd  party components and libraries, including names of classes and methods. In most cases, information at this fine grained level is difficult to acquire for an application and not available for 3 rd  party components. The Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP), a plug-in to the well-known Eclipse development environment, applies this approach and enhances it by enabling the usage of search patterns for the specification of classes and methods. Although search patterns ease the placement of instrumentations because exact knowledge of classes and methods is no longer required, still in-depth knowledge of the application structure is required due to missing information about the internal inheritance structure of the application. 
         [0009]    An enhanced version of this approach, as described in [3], uses additional meta-data that is available at load-time of class bytecode, like the direct base class or direct implemented interfaces of the loaded class. The meta-data is used to identify methods that should be instrumented, enabling filter criteria taking direct base class or direct implemented interfaces into account. Although this approach enables more generic method filtering, due to the restriction to direct relationships between classes and interfaces, it also lacks information about global inheritance relationships and thus still requires in-depth knowledge of the internal structure of the monitored application. 
         [0010]    AOP based approaches employing a load-time aspect weaver, which enables altering class bytecode during class loading, use meta-data extracted from bytecode to identify classes and methods. But due to the restricted structural information available at load-time, this approach is also limited to the direct neighborhood of the loaded class, like the direct base class or directly implemented interfaces of the loaded class. Other approaches analyze application deployment data and partially decompile application code to acquire structural information about the application. The system and method presented in [4] uses this approach. The gathered structural information may be used for instrumentation placement. This technique provides fine grained insight into the internal inheritance, but due to the analyzing step which has to be performed prior to run-time, it lacks adaptability to run-time altered application bytecode. Further, every change of the inheritance structure requires a new analysis and decompilation run. 
         [0011]    Consequently, a need for an alternative approach exists that overcomes the shortcomings of the present approaches. 
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         [0014]    [3] Boykin J. R., Giammaria A., Schlosser B. J. and Tapperson K. G.; “Method and System for Auto-Instrumenting Java Applications Through Probe Injection”; 20040123279A1 
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       SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
       [0016]    The present invention is dedicated to a system and method for adaptive, generic bytecode instrumentation for performance monitoring and failure diagnosis tools using load-time or run-time bytecode instrumentation. Information concerning object-oriented inheritance structures is used to determine methods that are target for instrumentation. A mapping of said inheritance structures is stored in an inheritance repository. 
         [0017]    The present invention requires neither source code modifications of monitored source code nor access to the source code to instrument bytecode based software applications. The code of monitored applications is instrumented on the fly, during application run-time, during or after loading class bytecode. 
         [0018]    The present invention provides generic, rule based instrumentation filters to select methods of the application for instrumentation. The rule based instrumentation filters use inheritance information for method selection. 
         [0019]    Said inheritance information is generated during application run-time and dynamically adapted to changes of configuration or bytecode of the monitored application. 
         [0020]    The generic filter mechanism enables placement rules that refer to well known, standardized high level component interfaces. The concrete code that implements the functionality of those components is identified and instrumented at run-time. 
         [0021]    Capturing of inheritance information and placement of instrumentation code has no impact on class loading order. 
         [0022]    An agent is injected into the process of a monitored application during startup. The agent initializes a communication link with an instrumentation server and intercepts class load events. The bytecode of loaded classes is sent to the instrumentation server for instrumentation. Additionally, instrumentation code can be injected to already loaded classes by sending corresponding bytecode to the instrumentation server and replacing original bytecode with instrumented bytecode in the runtime environment. 
         [0023]    The instrumentation engine uses meta-data embedded in the received bytecode, like name of the class, direct base class and directly implemented interfaces to incrementally build the inheritance repository that mirrors the inheritance structure of the monitored application. The inheritance repository reveals also indirect class relationships like inheritance relations that span multiple levels. 
         [0024]    After the inheritance repository is updated with the meta-data of the received bytecode, the instrumentation engine uses the inheritance repository to evaluate instrumentation filter rules to filter methods for instrumentation. 
         [0025]    The instrumentation engine adds instrumentation code to the code of the filtered methods and sends the altered bytecode back to the agent. 
         [0026]    The agent forwards the received bytecode to the run-time system which loads the altered bytecode into memory. 
         [0027]    The present invention enables the instrumentation of generic component interfaces by dynamically selecting concrete implementers of the generic component interfaces for the instrumentation at runtime, the instrumentation of interfaces including selecting the classes that implement the methods to instrument by specifying direct or indirect implemented interfaces and a instrumentation of abstract methods including selecting classes that implement methods to instrument by specifying the direct or indirect base class. 
         [0028]    The present invention uses object oriented inheritance information to select the methods for instrumentation including creating inheritance repository that maps the global inheritance structure of a monitored application including extracting meta-information identifying direct base class from java or .net class bytecode, storing direct inheritance relationship in a repository, extracting meta-information identifying direct implemented interfaces from java or .net class bytecode, storing the direct interface implementation relationship in a repository and incrementally combining the direct inheritance relationships to map the indirect inheritance relationships of the classes and the interfaces. 
         [0029]    Additionally, the present invention evaluates the instrumentation rules, using the global inheritance information at class load time to filter methods to instrument, including using the global inheritance information of the class that implements the method, using the global inheritance information of type of one or more method arguments, using the global inheritance information of a type of method return value and using a combination of the above. 
         [0030]    The instrumentation rule matches classes directly or indirectly extending a specific class, and the instrumentation rule matches methods implementing an interface contract of a specific the directly or indirectly implement interface. The instrumentation rule matching is directly or indirectly inherited but not redefined methods. 
         [0031]    The present invention adapts object oriented inheritance information according to the changes of monitored application, adapts the inheritance information to load time changed inheritance relationships (AOP load time weaving) including inserting or removing from a base class from the inheritance hierarchy of a class, inserting or removing a base interface from the inheritance hierarchy of an interface and inserting or removing interfaces a class implements, adapts to changes of class definition at load time or during runtime (AOP load time weaving) including inserting or removing methods and changing method signatures. 
         [0032]    The present invention adapts the inheritance information to runtime added classes and interfaces including the classes loaded from network sources and including classes dynamically defined at runtime. The present invention reuses the inheritance information between application runs and adapts inheritance information acquired from the previous run to changed inheritance relationships caused by the changed application configuration. 
     
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         [0033]      FIG. 1  illustrates an instrumentation program using instrumentation meta-information and class inheritance-information to evaluate filter rules to determine methods that need to be augmented with instrumentation operations. 
           [0034]      FIG. 2  illustrates a system, a preferable embodiment for instrumenting the original bytecode at load-time or during run-time. 
           [0035]      FIG. 3  provides a flowchart for the process of initializing or loading an inheritance repository on agent registration. 
           [0036]      FIG. 4  depicts an inheritance repository node that may be created for each class or interface received in bytecode format. 
           [0037]      FIG. 5  provides a flowchart for the process of building and updating an inheritance repository according to class inheritance information extracted from received bytecode. 
           [0038]      FIG. 6   a ) depicts the state of an exemplary inheritance structure stored within the inheritance repository before a specific class is loaded. 
           [0039]      FIG. 6   b ) shows the state of the exemplary inheritance structure after the specific class is loaded. 
           [0040]      FIG. 7   a ) provides a flowchart describing the process of storing the inheritance repository of a disconnecting agent. 
           [0041]      FIG. 7   b ) shows the process of saving inheritance repositories of connected agents on shutting down the instrumentation server. 
           [0042]      FIG. 8  provides a tabular overview of selected instrumentation rule types enabled by the present invention. 
           [0043]      FIG. 9   a ) shows a flowchart describing the evaluation of concrete instrumentation rules on received class bytecode. 
           [0044]      FIG. 9   b ) illustrates the process of evaluating generic downward rules on received class bytecode. 
           [0045]      FIG. 9   c ) provides a flowchart describing the evaluation of generic upward rules on received class byte code. 
       
    
    
     DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS 
       [0046]    Bytecode based software platforms like Sun Microsystems&#39;s Java or Microsoft&#39;s .NET framework provide interfaces to intercept bytecode loading events and to alter the bytecode of the loaded class before it is loaded into memory. Additionally those frameworks enable restricted altering of bytecode that is already loaded into the runtime environment. 
         [0047]    Open and documented bytecode formats enable analysis of class byte code and selective altering of methods. Meta-data contained in the loaded bytecode enables retrieval of the class name, package or namespace membership, name and signature of implemented methods, direct base class, direct implemented interfaces, etc. The isolated meta-data of a class only reveals direct relationships to other classes, which is not sufficient to provide rule-based adaptive method filtering. 
         [0048]    The present invention discloses a method to incrementally aggregate isolated class meta-data into a repository that mirrors also indirect relationships between classes and interfaces. This inheritance repository is in turn used to evaluate method filtering rules to detect methods for instrumentation. 
         [0049]      FIG. 1  shows an exemplary method and system for configuring an instrumentation engine  101 , using instrumentation meta-information in the form of instrumentation rules  102 , instrumentation operations  104  and, run-time generated application meta-information stored in an inheritance repository  103 . 
         [0050]    Instrumentation rules may either be concrete  812  or generic  814 . Parameters of concrete rules include but are not limited to a class name and a method name. Both method and class names may either be concrete names that match to a specific method of a specific class, or name patterns that match a set of methods and/or a set of classes. 
         [0051]    Generic rules additionally include a direction indicator  820  that specifies how inheritance relationships should be used for rule evaluation. 
         [0052]    Both concrete and generic rules are described in detail in  FIG. 8 . 
         [0053]    The inheritance repository  103  includes run-time created information  112  about class inheritance and interface implementation. The repository is also adapted to changes of inheritance relations during run-time. The process of creation and adaptation of the inheritance repository during run-time is depicted in  FIG. 5 . The inheritance repository  103  is used to parameterize generic rules which are evaluated during application run-time. 
         [0054]    The instrumentation operations  104  define the functionality that is injected into instrumented methods. The instrumentation operations  104  preferably comprise bytecode targeted to the application platform. A separate mapping is maintained that associates instrumentation rules with instrumentation operations to enable rule specific instrumentation. 
         [0055]    The instrumentation engine  101  creates and adapts the inheritance repository  103  during runtime, which is used to parameterize instrumentation rules  102 . Parameterized instrumentation rules  102  identify the methods where instrumentations should be placed. The instrumentation operations  104  what instrumentation code is placed. 
         [0056]      FIG. 2  displays a system  200  including an exemplary embodiment of the present invention consisting in a native loader  204 , an agent  205 , and an instrumentation server  201  with an instrumentation engine and an inheritance repository. The system also includes an application  207  which is monitored by the embodiment and the runtime environment  206  of the application  207 . Agent  205  and native loader  204  are deployed to the application  207 . Application  207  and instrumentation server  201  may be separated to different hosts and use a network connection for communication and to exchange bytecode, or they may run on the same host, using inter-process communication to exchange messages and bytecode. Another embodiment may run the instrumentation server  201  within the process of the application  207 . 
         [0057]    An agent  205  is injected into the process of the application during the application start and establishes a communication link to the instrumentation server  201 . The instrumentation server  201  can handle multiple connected agents simultaneously. 
         [0058]    Instrumenting a software application  207  at load time comprises the following steps: intercepting the native class loader  204  using an agent  205 ; capturing the original bytecode  202  and transferring said original bytecode  202  to an instrumentation engine  101 ; updating the inheritance repository  103  shown in  FIG. 1  with meta-data extracted from original bytecode  202 ; evaluating instrumentation rules  102  by using the inheritance repository  103  to filter methods, and instrumenting bytecode of filtered methods; returning the instrumented bytecode  203  to the agent  205 , which in turn forwards the instrumented bytecode  203  to the application run-time module  206  instead of the original bytecode  202 . 
         [0059]    Alternatively, a software application can be instrumented at run-time which allows altering the set of deployed instrumentations during run-time, without the need for an application restart. Instrumenting a software application  207  at run-time comprises the following steps: original bytecode  202  is fetched either by the agent  205  from the application run-time module  206 , or retrieved from a bytecode cache of the instrumentation server  201 ; in case of bytecode fetched from the application run-time, the inheritance repository  103  is updated with meta-data extracted from original bytecode  202 ; evaluating instrumentation rules  102  and instrument original bytecode  202 ; returning instrumented bytecode  203  to the agent  205 , which replaces the original bytecode  202  of the application run-time module  206  by the instrumented bytecode  203 . 
         [0060]    Referring to  FIG. 3 , in step  306  a new inheritance repository  103  is created, initialized and assigned to an agent  205  that registers at instrumentation server  101  for the first time. In step  304 , a determination is made to find if an existing inheritance repository is available. For subsequent registrations, the inheritance repository  103  assigned to the agent is loaded step  308 . After the inheritance repository  103  for the agent  205  is loaded, the agent establishes a connection to the instrumentation engine  101  in step  310 . 
         [0061]      FIG. 4  depicts the preferred embodiment of an inheritance repository node (IRN)  401 , which is used to represent classes or interfaces within the inheritance repository. It includes meta-information representing a class or interface received from the agent  205 , and references to other IRNs  401  which map inheritance or interface implementation relationships. An IRN  401  includes the class name  402  of the represented class or interface, a flag indicating if the IRN describes an interface or a class  403 , and a list of declared methods  404  containing method related meta-information like method name and signature. 
         [0062]    The field super class  405  references to the IRN  401  representing the direct super class or super interface of the described class or interface and the field implemented interfaces  406  is a list of references to IRNs representing interfaces directly implemented by the class described by the IRN. Classes that directly extend the described class are identified by the field inheriting classes  407 , which is a list of references to IRNs representing the classes directly extending the described class. 
         [0063]    IRNs and references between IRNs build a graph that enables queries for direct and indirect inheritance and interface implementation relations between classes. 
         [0064]      FIG. 5  illustrates the process of building and updating the inheritance repository  103  according to meta-information extracted from original bytecode  202  received from the agent  205 . 
         [0065]    In a first step  502 , meta-information like class or interface name, direct super class name and names of directly implemented interfaces are extracted from the received original bytecode  202 . The extracted class or interface name is used to query the inheritance repository  103  for an existing IRN  401  that represents the received class. In step  504 , it is determined if the inheritance repository already contains an IRN representing the received original bytecode. If a matching IRN is found, the meta-information of the IRN  401  is updated with the meta-information extracted from received original bytecode  202  in step  506 . Otherwise, a new IRN  401  is initialized with meta-information from original bytecode  202  and added to the inheritance repository  103  in step  508 . 
         [0066]    The inheritance repository is queried in step  510  for IRNs representing the direct super class and the directly implemented interfaces extracted from original bytecode  202 , and new IRNs are created in step  512  for classes and interfaces that are not represented within the inheritance repository  103 . Those IRNs are partially initialized in step  512  by setting the class name  402  and the interface flag  403  with the meta-information extracted from original bytecode  202 . The remaining part of the IRNs created in step  512  is initialized when bytecode of the represented classes is loaded and processed by the instrumentation engine  101 . Further, the IRN  401  representing the super class of the received class or interface is updated in step  514  by adding a reference to the IRN representing the received original bytecode  202  to the list of inheriting classes  407 . 
         [0067]    In a subsequent part of step  514 , the fields super class  405 , and implemented interfaces  406  of the IRN  401  representing the received original bytecode  202  are initialized with references to the IRNs representing the direct super class and the directly implemented interfaces of the class represented by the received original bytecode  202 . 
         [0068]    The process depicted in  FIG. 5  incrementally builds a graph that maps global inheritance and interface implementation relationships of all classes and interfaces received from the agent  205 . 
         [0069]      FIG. 6  exemplary illustrates the process of updating an inheritance repository  103 .  FIG. 6   a ) shows the state of the inheritance repository before inserting meta-data extracted from received original bytecode of class A.  FIG. 6   b ) shows the state of the inheritance repository after the IRN representing class A was added to the repository. Prior to inserting meta-information of class A, the inheritance repository contains separated IRN  401  graphs, describing parts of the inheritance structure. One sub graph  620  maps inheritance relationship from class F  607  to class E  605  and class D  606 , and the interface implementation relationship from class D  606  to interface I  608 . Another graph  622  maps the inheritance relationship between the interfaces K  610  and J  609 . A third graph  624  contains IRNs for the classes B  603  and C  604  and a preliminary IRN of class A  601 . The preliminary IRN of class A  601  contains meta-information concerning class A that was extracted from original bytecode  202  of classes B  603  and C  604 , indicating a common super class A  601 . 
         [0070]    On receiving original bytecode  202  representing class A, the preliminary IRN of class A  601  is updated with extracted meta-information to the final IRN of class A  602 . Meta-information extracted from original bytecode  202  representing class A  602  reveals an inheritance relationship between class D  606  and class A  602  and an interface implementation relationship between class A  602  and interface J  609 . The inheritance repository  103  is updated to map these additional identified relationships, which fills the gap within the inheritance repository  103  and connects the separated graphs. 
         [0071]    The graph depicted in  FIG. 6   b ) shows direct and indirect inheritance relationships and interface implementation relation ships of class A  602 . For instance, class A  602  directly inherits from class D  606  because both classes are directly connected in the inheritance graph, and it indirectly inherits from class F  607  because class A  602  and class F  607  are indirectly connected via class D  606 . Additionally direct and indirect interface relationships of Class A  602  are shown. As an example class A  602  directly implements interface J  609 , because the class is directly connected to the interface. Said class A  602  indirectly implements interface K  610  because interface K  610  and class A  602  are indirectly connected via interface J  609 . 
         [0072]      FIG. 7  describes storage of inheritance repositories  103  by a preferred embodiment using a separate instrumentation server  201  handling multiple agent connections. As depicted in  FIG. 7   a ), the inheritance repository  103  associated with a specific agent  205  is stored in step  702  if the agent is disconnected in step  704 . As depicted in  FIG. 7   b ), inheritance repositories  103  of all connected agents are stored in step  706  on shutdown in step  708  of the instrumentation server  201 . The stored inheritance repositories are used on subsequent agent connections (cf.  FIG. 3 ). 
         [0073]    The preferred embodiment evaluates instrumentation rules  102  against the name of the class or interface and the method names extracted from received original bytecode  202 , to filter methods for instrumentation. Instrumentation rules are grouped into concrete and generic rules. Referring now to  FIG. 8 , concrete instrumentation rules  812  provide filter criteria  810  for class name and a method name which are matched against class name and method names extracted from original bytecode  202 . Both class and method filter criteria  810  may be search patterns that match to multiple extracted class or method names. Additional filter criteria  810 , like method arguments and method modifiers may also be used for filtering. 
         [0074]    Generic rules  814  additionally take inheritance relationships into account. The class name filter criterion is used to query the inheritance repository  103  for classes or interfaces with specific inheritance relationships. Generic instrumentation rules  814  enable instrumentation of method declarations without executable code, like methods declared in interfaces or abstract methods. The classes implementing those methods are determined and instrumented at run-time. 
         [0075]    The preferred embodiment provides two different types of generic rules  814 , called downward rules  816  and upward rules  818 . Generic rules  814  contain a direction indicator  820  which specifies the usage of inheritance information of a specific generic rule. Downward rules  816  are scanning for classes that directly or indirectly inherit from classes, or directly or indirectly implement interfaces matching the class filter criterion. Upward rules are scanning for classes and interfaces that are direct or indirect super classes of the classes matching the class filter criterion. 
         [0076]    Downward rules  816  enable instrumentation in an application independent way. For instance, downward rules can be used to instrument any JDBC driver, regardless of the internal implementation of the driver. 
         [0077]    Upward rules  818  are used to instrument methods inherited but not overwritten by classes matching the class selection criteria. 
         [0078]    The information of the inheritance repository  103  enables various other types of generic instrumentation rules, like rules filtering only methods that implement interfaces, or rules filtering methods called by a specific method. 
         [0079]      FIG. 8  exemplary shows the evaluation of concrete, upward, and downward rules. Column  801  shows the filtering of method M 1  of class Z using a concrete instrumentation rule with a class filter criterion “Z” and method filter criterion “M1” or “*”, a wildcard matching any method name and thus selecting any method of class Z. Generic downward filtering rules are demonstrated in column  802 . Class Z implements interface A, which declares M 1 . In turn, class Z implements method M 1  to fulfill the contract of interface A. A downward rule  816  specified for interface A, selecting declared method M 1  or all declared methods implicitly filters M 1  of Z by evaluating the interface implementation relationship between Z and A. Additionally, class Z extends class B and overwrites the method M 2  declared by class B. A downward rule specified for class B, selecting method M 2 , or a downward rule selecting all methods of class B implicitly filters method M 2  of class Z by evaluating the inheritance relationship between class Z and B. 
         [0080]    Column  803  illustrates the evaluation of a generic upward rule. Class X extends class Z, and is not overwriting method M 1 . An upward rule  818  defined for the method M 1  or all methods of class X selects method M 1  of class Z by searching the nearest super class of X implementing the method M 1 . 
         [0081]    Referring to  FIG. 9 , instrumenting received original bytecode  202  during load-time or run-time is performed by evaluating instrumentation rules to filter methods for instrumentation. 
         [0082]      FIG. 9   a ) depicts the evaluation of concrete instrumentation rules. Meta-information previously extracted from original byte code  205 , like class name and method names is used by the instrumentation engine  101  to evaluate instrumentation rules  103 . To determine if a method is selected by one or more concrete instrumentation rules the instrumentation engine  101  first selects in step  902  all concrete instrumentation rules matching the extracted method name. In a second step  904 , the extracted class name is matched with the class selection criterion of the instrumentation rules selected in the previous step. Instrumentation operations  104  associated with concrete instrumentation rules that passed both matching steps are inserted in step  906  into the received original bytecode  202 . 
         [0083]    The process of evaluating downward rules for a method name extracted from received original bytecode  202  is shown in  FIG. 9   b ). First, all downward rules matching the extracted method name are selected in step  912 . Then, the inheritance repository  103  is queried in step  914  to determine if the class selection criterion of the selected rules match to the name of a direct or indirect super class or a directly or indirectly implemented interface of the class represented by the received original bytecode  202 . If matching classes are found in step  916 , downward rules with matching class names are selected, and instrumentation operations  104  associated with those rules are inserted into the received original bytecode  202  in step  918 . 
         [0084]      FIG. 9   c ) shows the process of evaluating upward rules on a method name extracted from received original bytecode  202 . After selecting all upward rules matching the extracted method name in step  922 , the inheritance repository  103  is queried for the classes inheriting from the class represented by the received bytecode that match the class selection criterion of the selected rules in step  924 . If matching classes are found in step  926 , upward rules with class names that match one of the inheriting class names are selected and instrumentation operations  104  associated with those rules are inserted into received original bytecode  202  in step  928 . 
         [0085]    The processes described in  FIG. 9   a ) to  9   c ) are executed for each method name extracted from received original bytecode  202  to generate the instrumented bytecode  203 .

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