What is Beatrix?

Writing applications is more than writing netlets: it's about finding hosting resources, keeping the right number of worker netlets running together with the right resources in the right locations, coping with outages, inter-netlet communication and so on.

The Beatrix framework is designed to make this easy. It provides a framework for a common pattern for distributed applications. It does this through a plugin architecture:

• All functionality is achieved via plugins.
• Many useful plugins are provided as standard.
• Plugins can be added dynamically to adapt functionality on the fly.
• Plugins can be added and managed remotely from one netlet to another.
• New plugins can of course be written very easily.