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. Developing a new gCube service: Key Concepts
   1. Profiling
   2. Configuration
   3. Implementation
   4. Building
   5. Deployment
3. A Sample Service: From configuration to testing with a single port-type
   1. Structuring the service code
   2. Profiling for the infrastructure
   3. JNDI configuration
   4. Sketching port-type interfaces
   5. Delving into the implementation
   6. Building & Deploying
   7. gCore Logging & Restart
   8. A Test Client
   9. Refining the implementation
4. A Sample Service: Adding State
   1. Towards a multi port-type service
   2. Profiling for the infrastructure
   3. Defining the port-type interfaces
   4. Delving into the implementation
   5. JNDI configuration
   6. Building & Deploying
   7. A Test Client
5. A Sample Service: Managing State
   1. How to publish the state
   2. How to persist the state
6. Advanced Topics
   1. Interfacing the Information System
   2. Service security
7. Learning more

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