Part V. Deployment And Virtualization

Table of Contents

Chapter 18. ProActive Basic Configuration

18.1. Overview

18.2. How does it work?

18.3. Where to access this file?

18.3.1. ProActive Default Configuration file

18.3.2. User-defined ProActive Configuration file

18.3.3. Alternate User Configuration file

18.4. ProActive properties

18.4.1. Required

18.4.2. Fault-tolerance properties

18.4.3. Peer-to-Peer properties

18.4.4. rmi ssh properties

18.4.5. Other properties

18.5. Configuration file example

Chapter 19. ProActive GCM Deployment

19.1. Introduction

19.2. ProActive Deployment API

19.2.1. Resources fixed by applications (SPMD)

19.2.2. Resources fixed by the deployer

19.2.3. On demand Scalability

19.3. GCM Deployment Descriptors

19.3.1. Host Information

19.3.2. Bridges

19.3.3. Groups

19.4. GCM Application descriptor

19.4.1. Executable

19.4.2. ProActive

19.5. FAQ

19.6. Tutorial

19.6.1. For the Grid Administrator : creating a deployment descriptor

19.6.2. For the Grid Application Developer : creating an application descriptor

19.6.3. For the Grid Application Developer : deploying your application on the grid

Chapter 20. XML Deployment Descriptors

20.1. Objectives

20.2. Principles

20.3. Different types of VirtualNodes

20.3.1. VirtualNodes Definition

20.3.2. VirtualNodes Acquisition

20.4. Different types of JVMs

20.4.1. Creation

20.4.2. Acquisition

20.5. Validation against XML Schema

20.6. Complete description and examples

20.7. Infrastructure and processes

20.7.1. Local JVMs

20.7.2. Remote JVMs

20.7.3. DependentListProcessDecorator

20.8. Infrastructure and services

20.9. How to terminate a ProActive application

20.9.1. Destroying active objects

20.9.2. Killing JVMs

20.10. Processes

Chapter 21. Variable Contracts for Descriptors

21.1. Variable Contracts for Descriptors

21.1.1. Principle

21.1.2. Variable Types

21.1.3. Variable Types User Guide

21.1.4. Variables Example

21.1.5. External Variable Definitions Files

21.1.6. Program Variable API

Chapter 22. ProActive File Transfer

22.1. Introduction and Concepts

22.2. File Transfer API

22.2.1. API Definition

22.2.2. How to use the API Example

22.3. Descriptor File Transfer

22.3.1. XML Descriptor File Transfer Tags

22.4. Advanced: FileTransfer Design

22.4.1. Abstract Definition (High level)

22.4.2. Concrete Definition (Low level)

22.4.3. How Deployment File Transfer Works

22.4.4. How File Transfer API Works

22.4.5. How Retrieve File Transfer Works

Chapter 23. Using SSH tunneling for RMI or HTTP communications

23.1. Overview

23.2. Configuration of the network

23.3. ProActive runtime communication patterns

23.4. ProActive application communication patterns.

23.5. ProActive communication protocols

23.6. The rmissh communication protocol.

Chapter 24. Technical Service

24.1. Context

24.2. Overview

24.3. Progamming Guide

24.3.1. A full XML Descriptor File

24.3.2. Nodes Properties

24.4. Further Information