Wrap Up

This concludes the quick introduction to NetKernel. You have seen that NetKernel is a resource-oriented system which provides a layer on top of traditional physical code-oriented and object-oriented technologies. The resource-oriented abstraction provides a clean match to other resource-oriented systems (such as relational databases) and offers a flexible environment for rapidly composing manageable solutions.

NetKernel includes several resource models, collections of information types and libraries of services that work with them. While you can easily write your own services or even full resource models, NetKernel comes equipped with hundreds of composable service-based tools. Following the Unix philosophy, these tools may be rapidly composed into higher-order solutions. Take a look at the Accessor Listing to see the collection of ready-to-use services

We invite you to explore further. The Tutorials book contains a collection of short tutorials on various topics. The Architect's Guide to NetKernel presents the core NetKernel concepts and their consequences from a higher-level perspective appropriate for a system or application architect. If you will be designing or influencing the design of a complete system this book will be of interest to you. The Solution Developer's Guide examines NetKernel at a lower level and describes approaches to designing parts of an application and bringing the whole together. If you are interested in writing low level extensions to NetKernel, read the NetKernel Extensions Guide.