Exploring NetKernel

NetKernel is a full-featured enterprise caliber software environment and includes a wide range of development, management and deployment tools.

Feature	Comments
Accessors	NetKernel includes more than 200 service functions called accessors. These cover areas such as database access, spell check, full text indexing, security and much more. Check the available functions and see how much you can leverage in your applications.
Programming Languages	NetKernel includes a wide range of programming languages including Ruby, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
Resource Models	NetKernel includes foundational resource models such as XML, JSON, Image and others.
Client, Services and Transports	NetKernel includes a comprehensive set of transports including HTTP, JMS, Cron and more.
Demonstration Applications	Several demonstration applications are included with NetKernel.
Developer Tools	A Debugger, XUnit test framework, Trace tool and more are included with NetKernel.

In its standard configuration, NetKernel runs two web servers. The first running on http://localhost:1060/ provides access to the management and developer tools. The second running on http://localhost:8080/ provides access to end user applications such as the workbench.

In this section we will take brief tour of the management and developer tools provided in NetKernel 3.3.