JPS63149731A - Control system for application program start in conversational processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten initial response time to a terminal equipment to an application program starting instruction outputted from the terminal equipment by previously starting the application program and ending the starting and initializing processing of the application program. CONSTITUTION:When an initial starting means 2 is driven, an application program prepared in a conversational processing system is started to execute initializing processing. After the end of the initializing processing, a process interrupting means 4 is accessed to interrupt the processing state of the initialized application program temporarily and information relating to the interrupted process is stored in a holding means 6. When an application program starting instruction is outputted from the terminal equipment 9, the initialized process of the application program is switched from it interrupted state to its operating state by a process switching means 8 to continue cession, so that the initial response time to the terminal equipment can be shortened.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a startup control method for an application run program in an interactive processing system.

[Conventional technology]

In conventional interactive processing systems, in which application programs such as distributed processing application programs that operate in conjunction with programs on the terminal device operate under the control of a conversation processing control program, the conversation processing control program A process is generated in response to a conversation processing establishment request from the user, a session is opened by authenticating the user's qualifications, and then an application program that operates in the conversation processing environment is started.

Further, when this application program accesses a file, the file must be allocated to a process before starting, or the file to be accessed must be dynamically allocated by the application program.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

In the method of starting an application program in the conventional conversational processing system described above, the application program is Since the operating environment setting process specific to the terminal always operates after receiving an instruction to start an application program from the terminal device user, it is possible to improve the response performance that is characteristic of distributed processing by linking with the terminal device. There is a drawback that there is no

An object of the present invention is to start an application program in advance and finish the startup and initialization processing of the application program. The goal is to shorten the time.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an interactive processing system that includes an initial startup means for initially starting an application program, and an application program started by the initial startup means that is called when the initialization process is completed. a process interrupting means for temporarily interrupting the processing state of the application program; a holding means for retaining information regarding the process interrupted by the process interrupting means; The switching means refers to the contents held in the holding means and switches a process whose initial processing of the specified application program has been completed from a suspended state to an active state.

[Effect]

When the initial startup means is activated, an application program prepared in the interactive processing system is activated, and the application program performs initialization processing. When the process is finished, the process interrupt is called, the processing state of the application program that has completed the initialization process is temporarily interrupted, and the information regarding the interrupted process is held in the holding means.
Program startup and initialization processing are performed before an application program startup instruction is issued from the terminal device.

〔Example〕

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, showing the transfer of control and the flow of information between each processing element. The present embodiment is composed of a conversation processing control section 1, a plurality of application programs 3a to 3n operating under its control, and a terminal device 9 including a keyboard and a display device. 2. Process initial starting means realized by a conversation processing control program. Process interrupting means 4゜Process information holding means 5. It includes a process holding table 6, a session control means 7, and a process switching means 8.

In FIG. 1, the process initial starting means 2 generates a request to open a session from the terminal device 9 based on the configuration information for the conversation processing control unit l before the terminal device 9 issues an instruction to start the application program. The started application programs 3a to 3n initialize their own operating environments, and when the initialization process is completed, they open their tongues. The process interrupting means 4 is called for notification.

In response, the process interrupting means 4 changes the process status of the application programs 3a to 3n whose initialization processing has been completed to an interrupted state in order to maintain the process status, and notifies the process information retaining means 5 to that effect. In response, the process information holding means 5 stores in the process holding table 6 the process number (■) of the suspended process, the user identification information (2), and the application program name (■) corresponding to the process.

Now, when the session control means 7 of the conversation processing control section 1 receives a connection request from the terminal device 9 to the conversation processing control section 1, it performs a qualification check based on the input user identification information, and if it can be confirmed, it is verified. It notifies the process switching means 8 of the completed user identification information ■° and the application program name ■゛ given in the application program startup instruction, and requests session connection processing for the suspended process.

The process switching means 8 registers in the process holding table 6 a process number ■ having an application program name ■ and user identification information ■ that match the application program name ■° and verified user identification information ■゛ to be started. If it is registered, there is a suspended process that has completed initialization processing, and the process indicated by the matching process number ■ stored in the process holding table 6 is registered. At the same time, the session information representing the connection relationship with the terminal device 9 is switched to the process with the process number (■).

In the conversation processing control unit 1, in order to schedule the corresponding process from the state at the time of interruption, the application program 3a to be started that has been notified from the session control means 7 is used.
-3n restarts the process from the state where the initialization process is completed.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention starts an application program running on an interactive processing system in advance to complete the operation environment setting process, and responds to an instruction to start the application program from a terminal device. Since the process that has been started in advance and the initial processing of the application program has been completed is switched from the suspended state to the active state and the session is continued, the elapsed time required for the initialization processing of the application program can be omitted. This has the effect of shortening the initial response time to the terminal device.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the invention. In the figure, ■...Conversation processing control unit, 2...Process initial starting means for starting application programs 3a-3n based on configuration information, 3a-3n...Application programs, 4...Application programs.
5. Process information holding means, 6. Process holding table, 7. Session control means, 8. Process switching means. 9...Terminal device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In an interactive processing system, there is provided an initial startup means for initially starting an application program; a process interrupting means for temporarily interrupting the processing state of the processing state; a holding means for holding information regarding the process interrupted by the process interrupting means; and a holding means for holding information about the process interrupted by the process interrupting means; 1. An application program startup control method in an interactive processing system, comprising: switching means for switching a process whose initial processing of a designated application program has been completed from a suspended state to an active state.