How to read this document

The first few sections are fairly independent and can probably be read in any order: Section  gives a loose overview of Jtrix, Section  details some of the key developments and trends that have influenced it and Section  details a sample problem, Harry's trading game, which could be solved with Jtrix.

After that we get to more particular details. Section  explains the principles of the software's design and Section  describes the resulting system with some specificity. This is followed by the mechanics of writing Jtrix applications, with a particular emphasis on what Jtrix does and doesn't take care of for us (Section ). One of the things Jtrix does not do is handle distributed application management (though it does facilitate it) so this is covered in Section . Finally this is applied to our sample problem described earlier (Section ) and Section  lists some actual implementations of key Jtrix services which, while not part of the core, are important enough to warrant special mention.