WO1999044126A2 - Methods and apparatus for remote method invocation - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a system and method for transmitting objects between machines in a distributed system and more particularly relates to methods for invocation of remote methods in a distributed system.
- Distributed systems usually contain a number of different types of machines interconnected by communications networks. Each machine has its own internal data types, its own address alignment rules, and its own operating system. This heterogeneity causes problems when building distributed systems. As a result, program developers must include in programs developed for such heterogeneous distributed systems the capability of dealing with ensuring that information is handled and interpreted consistently on different machines. However, one simplification is afforded by noting that a large proportion of programs use a request and response interaction between processes where the initiator (i.e., program initiating a communication) is blocked waiting until the response is returned and is thus idle during this time. This can be modeled by a procedure call mechanism between processes. One such mechanism is referred to as the remote procedure call (RPC).
- RPC remote procedure call
- RPC is a mechanism for providing synchronized communication between two processes (e.g., program, applet, etc.) running on the same machine or different machines.
- one process e.g., a client program
- sends a message to another process e.g., a server program.
- the client program it is possible for the client program to transmit the message and then begin a new activity, or for the server program's environment to buffer the incoming message until the server program is ready to process a new message.
- RPC imposes constraints on synchronism because it closely models a local procedure call within the calling process, which requires passing parameters in one direction, blocking the calling process until a called procedure of the server program is complete, and then returning a response.
- RPC thus involves two message transfers, and the synchronization of the two processes for the duration of the call.
- the RPC mechanism is usually implemented in two processing parts using the local procedure call paradigm, one part being on the client side and the other part being on the server side. Both of these parts will be described below with reference to FIG. 1.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the flow of call information using an RPC mechamsm.
- a client program 100 issues a call (step 102).
- the RPC mechanism 101 then packs the call as arguments of a call packet (step 103), which the RPC mechanism 101 then transmits to a server program 109 (step 104).
- the call packet also contains information to identify the client program 100 that first sent the call. After the call packet is transmitted
- step 104 the RPC mechamsm 101 enters a wait state during which it waits for a response from the server program 109.
- the RPC mechanism 108 for the server program 109 (which may be the same RPC mechanism as the RPC mechanism 101 when the server program 109 is on the same platform as the client program 100) receives the call packet (step 110), unpacks the arguments of the call from the call packet (step 111), identifies, using the call information, the server program 109 to which the call was addressed, and provides the call arguments to the server program 109.
- the server program receives the call (step 112), processes the call by invoking the appropriate procedure (step 115), and returns a response to the RPC mechanism 108 (step 116).
- the RPC mechanism 108 then packs the response in a response packet (step 114) and transmits it to the client program 100 (step 113).
- Receiving the response packet triggers the RPC mechanism 101 to exit the wait state and unpack the response from the response packet (step 106).
- RPC 101 then provides the response to the client program 100 in response to the call (step 105). This is the process flow of the typical RPC mechanism modeled after the local procedure call paradigm.
- the JavaTM programming language is an object-oriented programming language that is typically compiled into a platform-independent format, using a bytecode instruction set, which can be executed on any platform supporting the Java virtual machine (JVM). This language is described, for example, in a text entitled “The Java Language Specification” by James Gosling, Bill Joy, and Guy Steele, Addison- Wesley, 1996, which is incorporated herein by reference.
- JVM Java Virtual Machine
- a "class” provides a template for the creation of "objects” (which represent items or instances manipulated by the system) having characteristics of that class.
- the term template denotes that the objects (i.e., data items) in each class share certain characteristics or attributes determined by the class.
- a class thus defines the type of an object.
- Objects are typically created dynamically during system operation. Methods associated with a class are generally invoked (i.e., caused to operate) on the objects of the same class or subclass. Because the JVM may be implemented on any type of platform, implementing distributed programs using the JVM significantly reduces the difficulties associated with developing programs for heterogenous distributed systems. Moreover, the JVM uses a remote method invocation (RMI) system that enables communication among programs of the system.
- RMI remote method invocation
- RMI Remote Method Invocation Specification, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (1997), which is available via universal resource locator (URL) http://www.javasoft.corrjyproducts/jdk l.l/docs/guide/ra ⁇ i/spec/rmiTOC.doc.html.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the flow of objects in an object-oriented distributed system 200 including machines 201 and 202 for transmitting and receiving method invocations using the JVM.
- machine 201 uses RMI 205 for responding to a call from object 203 to invoke a method on remote object 204 by converting the call, including an identification of the method and any parameters into a byte stream 207. While machine 201 is responding to the call from object 203, a process running on the same or another machine in system 200 may continue operation without waiting for a response.
- Machine 202 receives the byte stream 207. Using RMI 206, machine 202 automatically converts it into executable bytecode to initiate the invocation of the method on object 204.
- RMI can also be used to transport objects within the distributed system for use in connection with processes executing on remote machines. In order to perform RMI, these machines use code referred to as stubs and skeletons created by an RMI compiler.
- a stub resides on a client machine and includes a reference to a remote object and acts as a proxy for the remote object.
- the skeleton is also a proxy for the remote object but it resides on the server machine containing the remote object.
- the stub resides on a client machine making a call for invocation of a method of a remote object
- the skeleton resides on a server machine containing the remote object.
- remote objects are referenced via interfaces, which are collections of related constants and methods.
- the stub and skeleton typically must be type-specific based on the type of remote object involved in the call. Therefore, varying types of stubs and skeletons must exist for RMI involving varying types of objects. Stubs and skeletons are explained in for example, the following document, which is incorporated herein by reference: Jamie Jaworski, "Java 1.1 Developer's Guide, Second Edition," pp. 371-383, Sams.net Publishing (1997). They are also explained in the Remote Method Invocation Specification identified above.
- a first method consistent with the present invention includes receiving a request to invoke a method of an object and determining the method to be invoked using a generic code.
- a second method consistent with the present invention includes receiving a request to invoke a method of an object of a specific class and determining the method using a common process for all of the classes. The method is invoked based on the determination, and an indication of the invoked method is provided.
- a third method consistent with the present invention includes receiving a request to invoke a first method of a first object and a second method of a second object being of a different type from the first object, and determining the first and second methods to be invoked using a common process. The first and second methods are invoked based on the determination, and an indication of the first invoked method and the second invoked method is provided.
- a first apparatus consistent with the present invention receives a request to invoke a method of an object and determines the method to be invoked using a generic code. The apparatus invokes the method based on the determination and provides an indication of the invoked method.
- a second apparatus consistent with the present invention receives a request to invoke a method of an object of a specific class and determines the method using a common process for all of the classes. The apparatus invokes the method based on the determination and provides an indication of the invoked method.
- a third apparatus consistent with the present invention receives a request to invoke a first method of a first object and a second method of a second object being of a different type from the first object, and it determines the first and second methods to be invoked using a common process.
- the apparatus invokes the first and second methods based on the determination and provides an indication of the first invoked method and the second invoked method.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the flow of call information using an RPC mechanism
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the transmission of objects in an object-oriented distributed system
- FIG. 3 is a diagram of an exemplary distributed processing system that can be used in an implementation consistent with the present invention
- FIG. 4 is a diagram of an exemplary distributed system infrastructure
- FIG. 5 is a diagram of a computer in the distributed system infrastructure shown in FIG. 4
- FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a system using generic code for RMI
- FIG. 7 is a flow chart of a process for invoking a method of a remote object using generic code.
- a system consistent with the present invention performs remote method invocation using a generic proxy class.
- a client machine transmits a call for invocation of a method of a remote object including an identifier for the method object, and a server machine receives the identifier and uses generic code, not specific to any particular class, to obtain an indication of the method to be invoked, which includes any relevant parameter types.
- a method object is, for example, an object having code for invoking a method.
- a client When a client receives a stub for a remote object, it is an instance of a generic proxy class that knows all the remote interfaces that the remote object implements.
- the proxy's invoke method is called with the following information: the method object indicating what method the client invoked on the object; and the list of parameters for the method.
- a method object contains, but is not limited to, the following information: a method name; argument types; and return type(s). Each type may be either an "Object" type or a "primitive" type.
- the proxy calculates a method hash for the method and transmits a call, possibly via RMI.
- the call contains, but is not limited to, the following information: an identifier for the object receiving the call; the method hash; and the marshalled parameters (according to the types specified in the method object).
- the parameter marshalling may be done in a generic proxy's code, since it only depends on knowledge of the argument types in the method object.
- the server receives the call and reads the object identifier and method identifier.
- the method identifier is used to determine the intended method object by using a lookup table conesponding method hashes to method objects.
- the generic server-side code can unmarshal the parameters, as it can obtain the types from the method object, and it then invokes the method on the actual remote object implementation.
- the result of that invocation is marshalled to the client using generic code and using knowledge of the return type obtained from the method object.
- the generic proxy on the client side reads the return value using the method object return type information and returns the result to the caller.
- FIG. 3 illustrates a distributed processing system 300 which can be used in an implementation consistent with the present invention.
- distributed processing system 300 contains three independent and heterogeneous platforms 301, 302, and 303 connected in a network configuration represented by network cloud 319.
- the composition and protocol of the network configuration represented by cloud 319 is not important as long as it allows for communication of the information between platforms 301, 302 and 303.
- the use of just three platforms is merely for illustration and does not limit an implementation consistent with the present invention to the use of a particular number of platforms.
- the specific network architecture is not crucial to embodiments consistent with this invention. For example, another network architecture that could be used in an implementation consistent with this invention would employ one platform as a network controller to which all the other platforms would be connected.
- Applications 307, 308, and 309 can be applications or programs that are either previously written and modified to work with, or that are specially written to take advantage of, the services offered by an implementation consistent with the present invention.
- Applications 307, 308, and 309 invoke operations to be performed in accordance with an implementation consistent with this invention.
- Operating systems 310, 311, and 312 are typically operating systems tied to the corresponding processors 316, 317, and 318, respectively.
- the platforms 301 , 302, and 303 can be heterogenous.
- platform 301 has an UltraSparc® microprocessor manufactured by Sun Microsystems, Inc. as processor 316 and uses a Solaris® operating system 310.
- Platform 302 has a MIPS microprocessor manufactured by Silicon Graphics Corp. as processor 317 and uses a Unix operating system 311.
- platform 303 has a Pentium microprocessor manufactured by Intel Corp. as processor 318 and uses a Microsoft
- Sun, Sun Microsystems, and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. UltraSparc and all other SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
- Memories 304, 305, and 306 serve several functions, such as general storage for the associated platform. Another function is to store applications 307, 308, and 309, RMI components 313, 314, and 315, and operating systems 310, 311 , and 312 during execution by the respective processor 316, 317, and 318. In addition, portions of memories 304, 305, and 306 may constitute shared memory available to all of the platforms 301, 302, and 303 in network 319. Note that RMI components 313, 314, and 315 operate in conjunction with a JVM, which is not shown for the purpose of simplifying the figure. Distributed System Infrastructure Systems and methods consistent with the present invention may also operate within an exemplary particular distributed system 400, which will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.
- This distributed system 400 is comprised of various components, including hardware and software, to (1) allow users of the system to share services and resources over a network of many devices; (2) provide programmers with tools and programming patterns that allow development of robust, secured distributed systems; and (3) simplify the task of administering the distributed system.
- distributed system 400 utilizes the Java programming environment to allow both code and data to be moved from device to device in a seamless manner. Accordingly, distributed system 400 is layered on top of the Java programming environment and exploits the characteristics of this environment, including the security offered by it and the strong typing provided by it.
- distributed system 400 of FIGS. 4 and 5 different computers and devices are federated into what appears to the user to be a single system.
- distributed system 400 provides the simplicity of access and the power of sharing that can be provided by a single system without giving up the flexibility and personalized response of a personal computer or workstation.
- Distributed system 400 may contain thousands of devices operated by users who are geographically disperse, but who agree on basic notions of trust, administration, and policy.
- each such logical grouping is known as a Djinn.
- service refers to a resource, data, or functionality that can be accessed by a user, program, device, or another service and that can be computational, storage related, communication related, or related to providing access to another user.
- Examples of services provided as part of a Djinn include devices, such as printers, displays, and disks; software, such as programs or utilities; information, such as databases and files; and users of the system.
- Both users and devices may join a Djinn.
- the user or device When joining a Djinn, the user or device adds zero or more services to the Djinn and may access, subject to security constraints, any one of the services it contains.
- devices and users federate into a Djinn to share access to its services.
- the services of the Djinn appear programmatically as objects of the Java programming environment, which may include other objects, software components written in different programming languages, or hardware devices.
- a service has an interface defining the operations that can be requested of that service, and the type of the service determines the interfaces that make up that service.
- Distributed system 400 is comprised of computer 402, a computer 404, and a device 406 interconnected by a network 408.
- Device 406 may be any of a number of devices, such as a printer, fax machine, storage device, computer, or other devices.
- Network 408 may be a local area network, wide area network, or the Internet. Although only two computers and one device are depicted as comprising distributed system 400, one skilled in the art will appreciate that distributed system 400 may include additional computers or devices.
- FIG. 5 depicts computer 402 in greater detail to show a number of the software components of distributed system 400.
- computer 402 in greater detail to show a number of the software components of distributed system 400.
- Computer 402 includes a memory 502, a secondary storage device 504, a central processing unit (CPU) 506, an input device 508, and a video display 510.
- Memory 502 includes a lookup service 512, a discovery server 514, and a Java runtime system 516.
- the Java runtime system 516 includes the Java RMI system 518 and a JVM 520.
- Secondary storage device 504 includes a Java space 522.
- the Java runtime system 516 includes the Java API libraries, allowing programs running on top of the Java runtime system to access, in a platform-independent manner, various system functions, including windowing capabilities and networking capabilities of the host operating system. Since the
- Java API libraries provide a single common API across all operating systems to which the Java runtime system is ported, the programs running on top of a Java runtime system run in a platform-independent manner, regardless of the operating system or hardware configuration of the host platform.
- the Java runtime system 516 is provided as part of the Java software development kit available from Sun Microsystems, Inc. of Mountain View, CA.
- JVM 520 also facilitates platform independence. JVM 520 acts like an abstract computing machine, receiving instructions from programs in the form of bytecodes and interpreting these bytecodes by dynamically converting them into a form for execution, such as object code, and executing them.
- RMI 518 facilitates remote method invocation by allowing objects executing on one computer or device to invoke methods of an object on another computer or device. Both RMI and the JVM are also provided as part of the Java software development kit.
- Lookup service 512 defines the services that are available for a particular Djinn. That is, there may be more than one Djinn and, consequently, more than one lookup service within distributed system 400. Lookup service 512 contains one object for each service within the
- Lookup service 512 is described in U.S. patent application entitled “Method and System for Facilitating Access to a Lookup Service,” which was previously incorporated herein by reference.
- Discovery server 514 detects when a new device is added to distributed system 400, during a process known as boot and join (or discovery), and when such a new device is detected, the discovery server passes a reference to lookup service 512 to the new device so that the new device may register its services with the lookup service and become a member of the Djinn. After registration, the new device becomes a member of the Djinn, and as a result, it may access all the services contained in lookup service 512.
- boot and join is described in U.S. patent application entitled “Apparatus and Method for providing Downloadable Code for Use in Communicating with a Device in a Distributed System,” which was previously incorporated herein by reference.
- a Java space 522 is an object repository used by programs within distributed system 400 to store objects. Programs use a Java space 522 to store objects persistently as well as to make them accessible to other devices within distributed system 400. Java spaces are described in U.S. patent application serial no. 08/971,529, entitled “Database System Employing Polymorphic Entry and Entry Matching,” assigned to a common assignee, and filed on November 17, 1997, which is incorporated herein by reference.
- an exemplary distributed system 400 may contain many lookup services, discovery servers, and Java spaces.
- FIG. 6 is a block diagram of an object-oriented distributed network 600 connecting machines 601 and 606, such as computers or virtual machines executing on one or more computers, or the machines described with reference to FIGS. 3, 4, and 5.
- Network 600 includes a client machine 601 containing RMI 602 and associated code 603.
- a server machine 606 includes RMI 605 and remote object 608.
- RMI 602 transmits a call or request 609 to RMI 605, requesting invocation of a method of remote object 608.
- RMI 602 uses a generic proxy 604 for transmitting call 609.
- Generic proxy 604 provides an advantage of not being type-specific so that it may invoke methods of varying types of remote objects.
- Table 1 contains a class definition written in the Java programming language for a generic proxy class by Netscape Communications Corp. and extended to allow the generic proxy to support invocation to methods among a set of interfaces.
- a generic proxy In place of a type-specific stub for a remote object, a generic proxy, initialized with the set of interfaces which indicates all methods that may be invoked on such a proxy, is used instead. When a call is made on the proxy, the proxy's "invoke” method is passed a "method object" which includes information about the method being invoked and also passes the required arguments bundled into an array of objects.
- RMI 605 returns a response 610 using generic code 607.
- the generic code is used to do the following: look up the method based on the method identifier; unmarshal the parameters based on their types as indicated in the method object; invoke the method on a remote object implementation; and marshal the return result(s) (based on the type) to the client.
- the response may include an identification of the type of object transmitted, the data constituting the state of the object, and a network-accessible location in the form of a URL for code that is associated with the object.
- the response may be transmitted as a stream.
- Streams used in the Java programming language, including input and output streams, are known in the art and an explanation, which is incorporated herein by reference, appears in, for example, a text entitled "The Java tutorial: Object-Oriented Programming for the Internet," pp. 325-53, by Mary Campione and Kathy Walrath, Addison- Wesley, 1996.
- Object streams are explained in, for example, the Object Serialization Specification, available from Sun Microsystems, Inc. URLs are known in the art and an explanation, which is incorporated herein by reference, appears in, for example, a text entitled "The Java tutorial: Object- Oriented Programming for the Internet,” pp. 494-507, by Mary Campione and Kathy Walrath, Addison- Wesley, 1996.
- FIG. 7 is a flow chart of a process 700 for RMI using generic code not specific to any particular type of remote objects on which the method is invoked.
- An application in client machine 601 invokes a method on a stub that is an instance of the generic proxy class (step 701).
- the generic proxy instance's "invoke" method is called with the method object and parameter list bundled in an object anay (step 702).
- the generic proxy transmits an identifier, which may include an object id, method hash and marshals parameter to a server machine (step 703).
- Server machine 606 reads the object id and method hash (step 704), and it looks up the method object for the call using the method hash (step 705). Server machine 606 unmarshals the parameters for the operation given the types of the parameters specified in the method object (step 706).
- Step 706 may involve building a method table, which compiles values for particular methods and is initialized when a remote object is created and exported.
- the generic code creates a correspondence between a method hash and a particular method object. Thus, by using the hashes in the method table, different skeletons typed to different types of objects is not required for method invocation to conespond method hash to method object.
- Server machine 606 invokes the method on the remote object implementation (step 707), and it marshals the return result(s) to the caller using the return type information in the method object (step 708).
- the generic proxy unmarshals the return result(s) using the return type information in the method object (step 709) and returns result(s) to the caller, client machine 601 (step 710).
- Machines implementing the steps shown in FIG. 7 may include computer processors for performing the functions, as shown in FIGS. 3, 4, 5, and 6. They may include modules or programs configured to cause the processors to perform the above functions. They may also include computer program products stored in a memory.
- the computer program products may include a computer-readable medium or media having computer-readable code embodied therein for causing the machines to perform functions described above.
- the media may include a computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave and representing sequences of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to securely address a peripheral device at an absolute address by performing the method described in this specification.
- the media may also include data structures for use in performing the method described in this specification.
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