A note on resources

The resource-access methods here are specific to Nodality. They are useful if your netlet/application can rely on running on Nodality; Jnode is one such application.

But in practice it is envisaged that anyone could write a node, and netlets maybe running on any of these. A node-independent way of accessing system resources will be discussed in a future version of this document. In short the procedure is this: the node administrator creates or allocates some resources (disk space, IP addresses, etc) and then grants them to netlets as part of their hosting contract. To make an application more managable it is likely that all the resources will be taken by an application manger netlet which then controls the execution of its worker netlets, including distribution of resources to them.