Contents

• Introduction
  • How to read this document
  • A very small netlet
  • Compiling our code
  • Running the netlet
  • Creating a netlet descriptor
  • Summary
  
  
• High level concepts
  • Services
  • Nodes and hosting
  • Netlets
  • Binding and service sessions
  • Nodality
  • External netlets, launcher, Jnode and bootstrap netlets
  • Netlet descriptors
  • Warrants
  • The service advertisement service (SAS)
  • Summary
  
  
• Facets and interfaces
  • Facets, binding and services
  • Sessions and servers
  • Netlet facets
  • Node facets
  • Mediation and security
  • Binding protocols and unsigned data
  • Conventions, INetlet, INode, IService and IRemote
  • Interface summary
  
  
• Packages, JARs, classes and methods
  • Packages
  • JARs
  • Classes and interfaces
    • org.jtrix.base.FacetHandle
    • org.jtrix.base.IFacetCollection
    • org.jtrix.base.IFacetProvider
    • org.jtrix.base.INetlet
    • jtrix.base.INode
    • org.jtrix.base.IRemote
    • org.jtrix.base.IService
  
  
• The first netlet in detail
  • Hello world again
    • Imports
    • Implementing INetlet
    • initialise()
    • Binding the service
    • terminate()
    • bindService()
    • getFacets()
    • bindFacet()
    • Summary
  • IHelloFacet
  • Compiling the application
  • Creating the netlet descriptor
  • Running the netlet with Jnode
  • Summary
  
  
• Writing a service
  • Recap on services
  • Discussion of our code
    • Implementing IHelloFacet
    • Providing an IService
    • FacetHandle
    • How we'll use our service
  • HelloServer
    • The main netlet methods
    • Implementing IHelloFacet
    • Providing the service
    • Why we use FacetHandle
  • Compiling the code
  • Creating the XML files
  • Running the code
  • More discussion on services
    • Access points' communication
    • More flexible code: SAS
    • Expanding ourselves: the hosting service
  • Summary
  
  
• Using node facets
  • Discussion
    • The netlets
    • Why do we have node facets?
    • The classes
    • Security
    • The FacetHandle class
  • Hello2Client
  • Hello2Provider
  • Compiling the application
  • Creating the netlet descriptors
  • Running the example with Jnode
  • Summary
  
  
• A bootstrap netlet
  • Discussion
    • Bootstrap netlets
    • Interfaces for bootstrapping and I/O
    • About our code
  • Hello3Client
  • Compiling the application
  • Creating the netlet descriptor
  • Running with Jnode
  • Summary
  
  
• Debugging
  • Standard I/O
  • Event messages
  • The Debug class
  • Miscellaneous tips
  
  
• Threads
  • Managing netlet concurrency
    • Number of threads
    • Thread reuse
    • When should thread reuse be avoided?
    • Mediation timeouts
  • Asynchronous facets
    • How to invoke asynchronously
    • Asynchronous invocation example
    • Preparing the example
    • Running the example
  • What more can we do?
  
  
• System resources
  • Networking
  • File system access
  • A note on resources
  • Embedding a non-Jtrix application
    • The code
    • Compiling the code
    • Creating the descriptor
    • Running the application
  • Summary
  
  
• jnode_help.txt
• jtrixmaker_help.txt
• About this document ...