METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR IDENTIFYING INTERPRETED PROGRAMS THROUGH CLASS LOADING SEQUENCES

摘要

A solution (403-481) is proposed for metering the usage of Java programs. For this purpose, each Java program to be metered is associated (406) with a fingerprint defined by a reference sequence of classes that must be loaded for its execution. The sequence of classes that are actually loaded by the JVM is monitored (409-436) - for example, by means of a wrapper for a class loader of the JVM. The sequence of loaded classes is then used to identify (439-475) the Java program in execution (which fingerprint matches this sequence of loaded classes).