What is the launcher?

Note: At the time of writing the external ``hello world'' service is not available. However, this section has been left in for demonstration.

The launcher is a command line tool to launch and manage netlets remotely. If you're familiar with Linux command line shells or DOS shells then you'll be comfortable with the launcher. In fact it shares much in common with Linux shells including simple variables and backticks for in-line evaluation.

But the launcher is not just a command line plus some networking features. It's actually got a full Jtrix node embedded in it. This is how it does its work. Its node run access point netlets to talk to the remote applications being used and managed.

Here, we're just going to use the launcher to access a service. It's the hello world service run by Jtrix.org. Later on in Section  we'll also use it to launch our own version of this application into a remote hosting service.

If you want to know more about the launcher and its syntax, have a look at Appendix  which explains all about it.