GCF Primer

This Primer gives a gentle introduction to the task of developing gCube services with the gCore Framework. Have a quick look at the prerequisites and make sure you go through the preliminary steps. Then dive in.

1. First Things First: Prerequisites & Preliminaries
2. The ACME Project: Organising Structure & Dependencies
3. A Quick Tour of Development
   1. My First Profile
   2. A Tiny JNDI
   3. A PortType Interface
   4. A Simple Implementation
   5. Building & Deploying
   6. Starting the gHN
   7. A Minimal Client
4. Refining the Implementation: Faults, Logs, and PortType Contexts
   1. A Faultful PortType
   2. Logging it!
   3. Node & Port-Type Contexts
5. A Sample Service: Adding State
   1. WS-Resources and The Implied Resource Pattern
   2. Extending the Profile
   3. Defining the port-type interfaces
   4. Delving into the implementation
   5. JNDI configuration
   6. Building & Deploying
   7. A Test Client
6. A Sample Service: Managing State
   1. How to publish the state
   2. How to persist the state
7. Advanced Topics
   1. Interfacing the Information System
   2. Service security
8. Learning more

--Manuele.simi 20:25, 28 March 2008 (EET)