Abstract: A high availability environment of resource adapters implements processes to manage and to distribute work among the adapters or adapter instances. An input resource, such as a file, is received and tasks are created to distribute the content to the different instances of the adapters that are configured in the cluster. A resource adapter instance switches to manage the creation of the task based on task-definitions of the adapter. The task-definitions are rules specified in the adapter on chunks of data. The tasks are created such that chunks of data are independently locked and processed without duplication. In order to distribute the work, the tasks are persisted into a table/xml on a persistent disk. The remaining instances interact with the table to access the tasks specified by the entries in the table, thus executing the tasks.

Abstract: A high availability environment of resource adapters implements processes to manage and to distribute work among the adapters or adapter instances. An input resource, such as a file, is received and tasks are created to distribute the content to the different instances of the adapters that are configured in the cluster. A resource adapter instance switches to manage the creation of the task based on task-definitions of the adapter. The task-definitions are rules specified in the adapter on chunks of data. The tasks are created such that chunks of data are independently locked and processed without duplication. In order to distribute the work, the tasks are persisted into a table/xml on a persistent disk. The remaining instances interact with the table to access the tasks specified by the entries in the table, thus executing the tasks.

Abstract: A high availability environment of resource adapters implements processes to manage and to distribute work among the adapters or adapter instances. An input resource, such as a file, is received and tasks are created to distribute the content to the different instances of the adapters that are configured in the cluster. A resource adapter instance switches to manage the creation of the task based on task-definitions of the adapter. The task-definitions are rules specified in the adapter on chunks of data. The tasks are created such that chunks of data are independently locked and processed without duplication. In order to distribute the work, the tasks are persisted into a table/xml on a persistent disk. The remaining instances interact with the table to access the tasks specified by the entries in the table, thus executing the tasks.

Abstract: A high availability environment of resource adapters implements processes to manage and to distribute work among the adapters or adapter instances. An input resource, such as a file, is received and tasks are created to distribute the content to the different instances of the adapters that are configured in the cluster. A resource adapter instance switches to manage the creation of the task based on task-definitions of the adapter. The task-definitions are rules specified in the adapter on chunks of data. The tasks are created such that chunks of data are independently locked and processed without duplication. In order to distribute the work, the tasks are persisted into a table/xml on a persistent disk. The remaining instances interact with the table to access the tasks specified by the entries in the table, thus executing the tasks.

Abstract: Provided are methods, apparatus or computer programs for collaborative problem solving and/or automated discovery and dynamic integration of capabilities in a distributed, multidisciplinary work environment. A set of software-implemented agents distributed across a network are used to identify agents and resources on the network that are capable of performing required tasks. The agents collaborate to generate a plan comprising a task allocation and task execution sequence in which tasks are allocated to selected ones of the agents and identified resources, and then the selected agents and resources execute the allocated tasks in accordance with the generated plan. Services (such as processing functions and knowledge) provided by hardware and software resources in a network are represented as ‘capabilities’ of an associated agent. The functions implemented by each agent are also represented as ‘capabilities’.

Abstract: Provided are methods, apparatus or computer programs for collaborative problem solving and/or automated discovery and dynamic integration of capabilities in a distributed, multidisciplinary work environment. A set of software-implemented agents distributed across a network are used to identify agents and resources on the network that are capable of performing required tasks. The agents collaborate to generate a plan comprising a task allocation and task execution sequence in which tasks are allocated to selected ones of the agents and identified resources, and then the selected agents and resources execute the allocated tasks in accordance with the generated plan. Services (such as processing functions and knowledge) provided by hardware and software resources in a network are represented as ‘capabilities’ of an associated agent. The functions implemented by each agent are also represented as ‘capabilities’.