Part VII. Services and Advanced Features

Table of Contents

Chapter 31. Load Balancing

31.1. Overview

31.2. Metrics

31.2.1. MetricFactory and Metric classes

31.3. Using Load Balancing

31.3.1. In the application code

31.3.2. Technical Service

31.4. Non Migratable Objects

Chapter 32. Fault-Tolerance

32.1. Overview

32.1.1. Communication Induced Checkpointing (CIC)

32.1.2. Pessimistic message logging (PML)

32.2. Making a ProActive application fault-tolerant

32.2.1. Resource Server

32.2.2. Fault-Tolerance servers

32.2.3. Configure fault-tolerance for a ProActive application

32.2.4. A deployment descriptor example

32.3. Programming rules

32.3.1. Serializable

32.3.2. Standard Java main method

32.3.3. Checkpointing occurrence

32.3.4. Activity Determinism

32.3.5. Limitations and known bugs

32.4. A complete example

32.4.1. Description

32.4.2. Running NBody example

Chapter 33. Security Framework

33.1. Overview

33.2. Security Architecture

33.2.1. Base model

33.2.2. Security is expressed at different levels

33.3. Detailed Security Architecture

33.3.1. Nodes and Virtual Nodes

33.3.2. Hierarchical Security Entities

33.3.3. Resource provider security features

33.3.4. Interactions, Security Attributes

33.3.5. Combining Policies

33.3.6. Dynamic Policy Negotiation

33.3.7. Migration and Negotiation

33.4. How to create policy files and certificates

33.5. Activating security mechanism

33.6. The XML Security Descriptor in details

33.6.1. Construction of an XML policy:

Chapter 34. Exporting Active Objects and components as Web Services

34.1. Overview

34.2. Principles

34.3. Pre-requisite: Installing the Web Server and the SOAP engine

34.4. Steps to expose an active object or a component as a web services

34.5. Undeploy the services

34.6. Accessing the services

34.7. Limitations

34.8. A simple example: Hello World

34.8.1. Hello World web service code

34.8.2. Access with Visual Studio

34.9. C# interoperability: an example with C3D

34.9.1. Overview

34.9.2. Access with a C# client

34.9.3. Dispatcher methods calls and callbacks

Chapter 35. ProActive on top of OSGi

35.1. Overview of OSGi -- Open Services Gateway initiative

35.2. ProActive bundle and service

35.3. Yet another Hello World

35.4. Current and Future works

Chapter 36. An extended ProActive JMX Connector

36.1. Overview of JMX - Java Management eXtention

36.2. Asynchronous ProActive JMX connector

36.3. How to use the connector ?

36.4. Notifications JMX via ProActive

36.5. Example : a simple textual JMX Console

Chapter 37. Existing MBean and JMX notifications in ProActive

37.1. Principles

37.2. How to subscribe/unsubscribe to the notifications of a MBean?

37.2.1. Subscribe to the JMX notifications of a ProActive object

37.2.2. Unsubscribe to the JMX notifications

37.3. The ProActive JMX Notifications

37.3.1. How to send a JMX notification?

37.3.2. example of notification listener

37.3.3. The JMX notifications sent by the ProActive MBean