Contents

• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • Goals of this document
  • Scope, intended audience, and related works
  • How to read this document
  
  
• Jtrix
• Background
  • Network applications
  • Expectation and demand
  • Internet business models
  • Scalability and deployment options
  • The resource barrier
  • Innovation
  • Portals
  
  
• Harry's trading game
  • Harry's game
  • What Harry needs
  • Harry's choices
  • Harry's problem in a nutshell
  
  
• Design Principles
  • The end-to-end argument
  • A simple base layer
  • Minimisation of central authorities
  • Security issues
  • Encourage specialised development
  • Contracts
  • Payment
  • Component architecture
  • Versioning
  • Legacy systems and systems integration
  
  
• Jtrix defined
  • Glossary
  • Nodes and netlets
  • Services, contracts and warrants
  • Standard service definitions
  • Service payment
  
  
• Writing Jtrix applications
  • Taxonomy of an application
  • What Jtrix does do
  • What Jtrix doesn't do (and why it doesn't)
  
  
• Hosting Services
  • Cluster Resources
  • Cluster API's
  • Typical Scenario
  • Virtual Hosting Services
  
  
• Locality Dependent Services
  • Example Scenario
  • A Pattern
  • Scenario Revisited
  
  
• Harry's trading game revisited
  • Basic Architecture
  • Initial Deployment
  • Optimising Deployment
  
  
• Reference implementations
  • Jtrix
  • Nodality
  • Base Infrastructure
  • Storix
  • Spondulix
  • Webtrix
  
  
• About this document ...