Contents

• Introduction
  • How to read this document
  • What is Beatrix?
  • What is Beatrix good for?
  
  
• High level concepts
  • Beatrix netlets
    • Netlet classification
    • Writing managed netlets
    • Access points
    • Workers
    • Managers
  • Command line control
  • Plugins
  • Anatomy of a Beatrix application
  
  
• An introduction to plugins
  • What is a plugin?
  • The Manager and Worker classes
  • Flow control
  • Key plugin principles
    • The plugin manager and lookup
    • Adding by class and by instance
    • Initialisation
    • Eager initialisation
    • Shutdown
    • Identifying plugins
    • Multiple plugins of the same type
    • Some plugins are expected only once
    • One plugin can have multiple types
    • Nested plugins
  • Using plugins
    • The IPluginManager interface
    • Adding plugins
    • The order of plugins
    • Using looked up plugins
    • Removing plugins
  • Writing a plugin
    • A complete and simple plugin
    • Code structure
    • The IPlugin interface
    • Other plugin interfaces
    • AbstractPlugin
  
  
• A simple Beatrix application
  • How to read this code
  • ISkeletonFacet
  • AdminServiceProvider
  • SkeletonServiceProvider
  • LifeCyclePlugin
  • SkeletonWorkerManager
  • SkeletonWorker
  • Compiling the application
  • Creating the launch descriptor
  • Launching and running the application
    • Launching the application
    • Running the application
  
  
• Key plugins and interfaces
  • Overview
    • The hooks package
    • The util package
    • Essential plugin summary
  • Application start-up
    • IManagerLifeCycle
    • The coldStart IPropertyCollection parameter
  • Being the leader
  • Being part of the peer group
    • Netlet handles
    • Peer support
    • Communicating via internal facets
    • Caching internal facets
    • ICommunicationServer
    • When links fail
  • Being a manager
    • Management state
    • Manager support
  • Deploying and managing workers
    • IWorkerPool plugin interface
    • WorkerPool plugin implementation
    • Worker pool example
    • Worker life cycle events
  • Requesting and using resources
    • Locating resources the simple way
    • Using resources
    • Resource concepts in more detail
    • Why did I need to know that?
    • Locating resources in more detail
    • How resource priority is used
    • Where do resources come from?
  • Services
    • Creating a service
    • Facets added by the ServiceManager
    • Creating a warrant
    • Some notes on warrants
    • Using a service
  • Managing plugins remotely
  • Timing events
  
  
• The launcher console
  • Launch/management basics
  • Console commands and variables
  • The launch process in detail
    • The launch descriptor in detail
    • Launch mechanics in detail
    • Signalling launch success
  • Writing application commands
    • IConsoleFacet
    • Console properties
    • Even easier consoles
    • IAdvancedConsoleFacet
  
  
• Important application aids
  • X.500 DNs
  • Warrant security
    • Creating a key pair
    • Beatrix and certification
  • Properties and Oids
    • The Property class (typed data)
    • The Oid class
    • The PropertySet class
    • Important related concepts
    • MIBs
    • Packages and classes
  • Specialised access points
  • Debugging and event messages
    • Event messages
    • The Debug class
  
  
• Things to try yourself
• jtrixmaker_help.txt
• Example Beatrix applications
  • DNS
    • Contracts
    • Actors
    • Netlet roles
  • Web server
    • HTTP service
    • Webtrix back end
  • SAS
    • Services
    • Netlet roles
  
  
• About this document ...