Abstract: A system including a first component having a lensed facet; and a second component optically coupled to the first component, the second component having a tapered facet, the tapered facet and lensed facet spaced from each other so as to establish evanescent-wave coupling between the first component and the second component.

Abstract: A system including a first component having a lensed facet; and a second component optically coupled to the first component, the second component having a tapered facet, the tapered facet and lensed facet spaced from each other so as to establish evanescent-wave coupling between the first component and the second component.

Abstract: There is provided a method that includes (i) examining first data from a first Application Program Interface (API) call and second data from a second API call to determine whether (a) the first API call sent a message, and the second API call received the message, or (b) the first API call was conducted in a transactional unit of work, and the second API was also conducted in the transactional unit of work, and (ii) employing the first data and the second data in a subsequent process, if either of (a) or (b) is true.

Abstract: There is provided a method that includes (i) examining first data from a first Application Program Interface (API) call and second data from a second API call to determine whether (a) the first API call sent a message, and the second API call received the message, or (b) the first API call was conducted in a transactional unit of work, and the second API was also conducted in the transactional unit of work, and (ii) employing the first data and the second data in a subsequent process, if either of (a) or (b) is true.

Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for monitoring an operation of a distributed data processing system. The system can include a plurality of applications running on a plurality of host processors and communicating with one another, such as through a message passing technique. The method includes steps executed in individual ones of the plurality of applications, of (a) examining individual ones of generated API calls to determine if a particular API call meets predetermined API call criteria; (b) if a particular API call meets the predetermined API call criteria, storing all or a portion of the content of the API call as a stored event; (c) processing a plurality of the stored events to identify logically correlated events, such as those associated with a business transaction; and (d) displaying all or a portion of the stored API call content data for the logically correlated events.