Abstract: The invention described is a new and useful process for minimizing the overall rebate a provider disburses to customers when a service level agreement (SLA) breach occurs in a utility computing environment. Specifically, the process compares performance data and resource usage with the SLAs of the customers, and reallocates shared resources to those customers who represent a lesser penalty to the provider in the event of an SLA breach. The process determines which resources, used by customers representing the lesser penalty, are operating below peak capacity. The process then reallocates these under-utilized resources to those customers requiring additional resources to meet SLA thresholds. If all resources are operating at peak capacity, the process reallocates the resources to those customers whose SLAs represent a greater penalty in the event of an SLA breach as compared to those customers whose SLAs provide for a lesser penalty, thereby minimizing the total rebate due upon an SLA breach.

Abstract: An object state caching method can include augmenting a compiled object having at least one referenced method with conditional caching logic. The conditional caching logic can be executed in an execution environment to determine whether to execute the referenced method. If the conditional caching logic determines not to execute the referenced method, the execution of the referenced method can be bypassed. Additionally, the stored object state can be retrieved from a communicatively coupled object cache. Finally, the retrieved object state can be forwarded to a requesting process. If, however, the conditional caching logic determines to execute the referenced method, the referenced method can be executed producing the resultant object state, and, the resultant object state can be cached in the coupled object cache.

Abstract: An object state caching method can include augmenting a compiled object having at least one referenced method with conditional caching logic. The conditional caching logic can be executed in an execution environment to determine whether to execute the referenced method. If the conditional caching logic determines not to execute the referenced method, the execution of the referenced method can be bypassed. Additionally, the stored object state can be retrieved from a communicatively coupled object cache. Finally, the retrieved object state can be forwarded to a requesting process. If, however, the conditional caching logic determines to execute the referenced method, the referenced method can be executed producing the resultant object state, and, the resultant object state can be cached in the coupled object cache.