SYSTEM INCLUDING A MIDDLEWARE MACHINE ENVIRONMENT

• Main Authors: MESSINGER, ADAM, CAMERON, BRAD, LARSEN, STAFFAN, OTENKO, OLEKSANDR, REYNOLDS, NATHAN, LIU, STEVEN, BHATTACHARYA, PALLAB, DORR, JOSHUA, TORUDBAKKEN, OLA, BIHANI, BALLAV, TORSTENSSON, PATRIK, PHAN, LENNY, OAKS, SCOTT, REVANURU, NARESH
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 24.07.2013
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

A system and method for providing a middleware machine or similar platform. In accordance with an embodiment the system (referred to herein in some implementations as "Exalogic") comprises a combination of high performance hardware, together with an application server or middleware environment, to provide a complete Java EE application server complex which includes a massively parallel in-memory grid, can be provisioned quickly, and can scale on demand. In accordance with an embodiment, the system can be deployed as a full, half, or quarter rack, or other configuration, that provides an application server grid, storage area network, and InfiniBand network, which support the execution of an application server, middleware or other functionality such as, for example, WebLogic Server, JRockit or Hotspot JVM, Oracle Linux or Solaris, and Oracle VM. Additional features of the system can include, e.g. Zero Buffer Copies, Scatter/Gather I/O, T3 Connections, and Lazy Deserialization.