J2EE application versioning strategy

摘要

The present invention is a method, system, and computer program product enabling multiple versions/releases of a J2EE application to be served to clients from a single application server. One or more JNDI proxies are situated between each client and the application server. The JNDI proxies allow a same public service name to be utilized by different clients to access different programs/services on the application server. The JNDI proxies do this by translating the service name into a non-public alias name on behalf of the client. The alias name is a private name that the service provider who administers the application server understands and uses to locate the specific version of programs/services that the clients need.