Developer Guide

This is a guide to the design principles and main features of the gCube Application Framework (gCF).

• Why a Framework?
• gCF at a Glance
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Scope Management
  • Security Management
  • Configuration Management
  • State Management
  • Fault Management
  • Discovery & Publication
  • Event Management
  • Local Processes & Remote Interactions
  • Architecture Overview
• The Anatomy of a gCube Service
• Elements of Configuration
  • Configuration Overview
  • The JNDI Configuration
  • The Deployment Descriptor
• Contexts for the Masses
  • The gHN Context
  • Service Contexts
  • PortType Contexts
• Logging
  • Logging within the Container
  • Logging outside the Container
• Dealing with Faults
  • Modelling Failures: Faults & Exceptions
  • General-Purpose Failures
• Dealing with Scope
  • What's in Scope?
  • Modelling Scope
  • Scope Rules
  • Configuring_scope (Static scope)
  • gCube Calls & the gCube Handler
  • Scope Managers
  • The Client Perspective:Scopes & Stubs
• Dealing with State
  • Counting State: the Stateful Resource
  • Accessing & Publishing State: the WSRF Way
  • Lifetime Issues: the WS-BaseLifetime
  • Design Patterns
  • Adding Persistence
• Dealing with Security
  • Key Concepts
  • Security Descriptors
  • Handling Credentials:Security Managers
  • The Client Perspective:Security & Stubs
• Working with gCube Resources
• Towards Service Semantics: Frameworks within Frameworks
  • Local Processes: the Handler Framework
  • Intelligent Stubs: the Call Framework
  • Local Events: the Event Framework
  • Objects before Objects: the Proxy Framework
• Features for Analyzing Biological Phenomena and Species
• Towards Service Semantics: Client Libraries
  • Discovering Remote Resources: the IS Client
  • Publishing Local Resources: the IS Publisher
• From Theory to Practice: Getting Started