Abstract: A method and system for reconfiguring a communications stack. The system provides a comstack manager that can be used with a communications stack having any number of layers, which may be located on different computers. In addition, the comstack manager facilitates the reconfiguration of a communications stack without having to modify any communications stack layers. Each layer provides a single entrypoint through which it communicates to its adjacent layers, and the communications stack layers communicate with each other using a message transfer system that has a single entrypoint for transferring messages. The single entrypoint of the layer provides compatibility among the layers and flexibility since each layer is not bound to a specific definition of another layer's functions. That is, each layer only needs to know how to access the single entrypoint which is the same for each layer.

Abstract: A system provides a comstack manager used with a communications stack having any number of layers. These layers are located on different computers so as to spread the load of the communications stack across multiple computers. The comstack manager facilitates the reconfiguration of a communications stack without having to modify any of the layers of the communications stack. Each layer provides a single entrypoint through which it communicates to its adjacent layers and the layers of the communications stack communicate with each other using a message transfer system that has a single entrypoint for transferring messages. The single entrypoint of the layer provides compatibility among the layers and flexibility since each layer is not bound to a specific definition of the functions provided by another layer. Each layer only needs to know how to access the single entrypoint which is the same for each layer. The comstack manager performs its processing by receiving configuration information at runtime.