Commentary by Mark Wahl, CISA
Recent publication on validation of middleware failover behavior (20080903)
US patent application 20080215743 is a system and method for validation of middleware failover behavior:
An information processing system containing middleware and backend server software components is augmented with the ability to validate the behavior of the middleware system when one or more backend servers are unavailable, based on dynamic reconfiguration of the network layer protocol software component in the operating system underlying the middleware software component.