Parallel replication mechanism for state information produced by serialized processing

摘要

The present invention relates to a method and system for replicating state information stored in a first data processing system 402 to a second data processing system 404, whereby said state information is kept in a set of records. Object of the present invention is to provide a method and a system for replicating state information having a shorter processing time. First, for each incoming request message requesting a change of said state information incoming request message for changing said state information are received. Then, an indicator is assigned to said incoming request message representing the order in which the incoming request messages are processed. Thereafter, the incoming request message are processed and the set of records are updated in accordance with the result of the processing of said incoming request message. Subsequently, a modification record is sent to a first storage subsystem 420 containing the indicator assigned to said incoming request message and all changes applied to said set of records performed during processing of said incoming request message. Concurrently, acknowledge messages are checked which have been received from said second data processing unit 404 indicating a receipt of said sent modification records and response message are sent as a reaction to an incoming request message to the respective sender for such incoming request messages the modification record of which and the modification records of all its predecessors have been received by the second data processing unit 404.