IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD

摘要

A maximum resource use amount for use by an application is acquired for each application, the acquired maximum resource use amount and a resource amount used by the applications are stored for each application, and when an application calls a resource use API in order to acquire or release a resource, it is determined, based on the upper limit of the used resource amount and the used resource amount, whether or not to generate the resource, and, if it is determined to generate the resource, the resource is generated and the used resource amount is updated.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a holding unit that receives a declared resource amount to be used from each of applications installed on an application platform, and holds the declared resource amount for each application; and a resource management unit that, in response to a resource acquisition API being called from an application, determines whether or not a resource amount used by the application exceeds the declared resource amount, issues a notification that the resource amount exceeds the declared resource amount to the application, in a case where it is determined that the resource amount exceeds the declared resource amount, and issues a request to the application platform to generate a resource and delivers a resource object generated in response to the request, in a case where it is determined that the resource amount does not exceed the declared resource amount.