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Abstract

A system, method and software product for providing an implementation for 'management beans' or MBeans in a multiple Java Virtual Machine (JVM) server is disclosed. By providing a single MBean interface so that a client or an element external to the server executes a single request and/or receives a single notification, no matter how many servant JVMs exist, to the external element, the multiple JVM system appears to act like a single JVM system. These new techniques for providing management across several JVM servers depend upon one server being designated as a control JVM and the remaining JVM servers being designated as servant JVMs, under the control of the control JVM. The control JVM distributes work requests across the servant JVMs in an implementation specific way. Such systems are preferably implemented using an MBean proxy which receives requests from external elements, delegates the requests to a particular servant JVM in which the processing is under the control of an MBean that is local to the control JVM, then receives notifications from the servant JVMs and aggregates the notifications from the servant MBeans into an aggregate notification which it then sends out from the server.

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