Abstract: A system and method for a connection resource system is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the invention, a method includes establishing a first connection, the first connection being between one of one or more server applications and one of one or more external resources; and establishing a second connection, the second connection being between one of the one or more server applications and one of the one or more external resources; wherein the first connection and the second connection are established utilizing a single resource system.

Abstract: A system and method are provided to inspect memory leaks. In one embodiment, a method of inspecting memory leaks is disclosed. The method includes garbage collecting at a virtual machine to generate a garbage collection file having memory leak information identifying dirty objects of an application causing first memory leaks and providing a state of the dirty objects as they existed prior to causing the first memory leaks. The garbage collection file is periodically duplicated into a backup file to the garbage collection file, and, during runtime, the backup file having the memory leak information is analyzed including reviewing the state of the dirty objects as they existed prior to causing the first memory leaks to identify clean objects capable of turning dirty and causing second memory leaks.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to provide a general-purpose timeout management system for client-specific session objects. In one embodiment a timeout service is created that may be used by more than one Java Enterprise EJB container simultaneously, avoiding unnecessary duplication of timeout management services. Each EJB container may instantiate an “invalidation agent” which registers a callback interface with the timeout service. The timeout service invokes a timeout callback method on registered invalidation agents at specified time intervals. The time intervals correspond to the timeout values associated with the client-specific objects, obviating the need for the EJB container to make time-consuming queries to the system clock. The invention discloses a “timeout marker” data element associated with each client-specific session object created by the EJB container. Whenever a client accesses a client-specific session object, the timeout marker associated with that object is cleared.

Abstract: A method is described in which, during execution of a distributed transaction, a representation of persistent data stored at an entry in a database is placed into a cache. Then, in response to an application's decision that the entry should be removed from the database, the representation is kept in the cache and marked as corresponding to an entry that is to be removed from the database. Then, during execution of the distributed transaction's two-phase commit protocol, the database is informed that the entry is to be removed from the database if the representation was marked as corresponding to an entry that is to be removed from the database when the application completed its execution for the distributed transaction.