The Nodality node with facilities to make it executable from a command line, and with group communication and resource management.
Jnode acts as the external netlet for Nodality. As an external netlet all it does is run a series of ``bootstrap netlets'' specified on the command line, and then continues managing them. One example of a bootstrap netlet for Jnode is Jtrix.org's hosting service, called Hospitality. It uses the group communication facilities to keep various copies of itself working together in a distributed way.
With Jnode it is easy to run a netlet on a local machine, because it's just a case of running Jnode and naming the netlet descriptor.
Nik Silver 2001-11-21