Part V. Deployment And Virtualization

Table of Contents

Chapter 17. ProActive Basic Configuration

17.1. Overview

17.2. How does it work?

17.3. Where to access this file?

17.3.1. ProActive Default Configuration file

17.3.2. User-defined ProActive Configuration file

17.3.3. Alternate User Configuration file

17.4. ProActive properties

17.4.1. Required

17.4.2. Fault-tolerance properties

17.4.3. Peer-to-Peer properties

17.4.4. rmi ssh properties

17.4.5. Other properties

17.5. Configuration file example

Chapter 18. ProActive Grid Component Model Deployment

18.1. Introduction

18.2. ProActive Deployment API

18.2.1. Resources fixed by the application (SPMD)

18.2.2. Resources fixed by the application deployer

18.2.3. On demand Scalability

18.3. GCM Deployment Descriptors

18.3.1. Host Information

18.3.2. Bridges

18.3.3. Groups

18.4. GCM Application descriptor

18.4.1. Executable

18.4.2. ProActive

18.5. FAQ

18.6. Tutorial

18.6.1. For the Grid Administrator : creating a deployment descriptor

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

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

Chapter 19. XML Deployment Descriptors

19.1. Objectives

19.2. Principles

19.3. Different types of VirtualNodes

19.3.1. VirtualNodes Definition

19.3.2. VirtualNodes Acquisition

19.4. Different types of JVMs

19.4.1. Creation

19.4.2. Acquisition

19.5. Validation against XML Schema

19.6. Complete description and examples

19.7. Infrastructure and processes

19.7.1. Local JVMs

19.7.2. Remote JVMs

19.7.3. DependentListProcessDecorator

19.8. Infrastructure and services

19.9. How to terminate a ProActive application

19.9.1. Destroying active objects

19.9.2. Killing JVMs

19.10. Processes

Chapter 20. Variable Contracts for Descriptors

20.1. Variable Contracts for Descriptors

20.1.1. Principle

20.1.2. Variable Types

20.1.3. Variable Types User Guide

20.1.4. Variables Example

20.1.5. External Variable Definitions Files

20.1.6. Program Variable API

Chapter 21. ProActive File Transfer

21.1. Introduction and Concepts

21.2. File Transfer API

21.2.1. API Definition

21.2.2. How to use the API Example

21.3. Descriptor File Transfer

21.3.1. XML Descriptor File Transfer Tags

21.4. Advanced: FileTransfer Design

21.4.1. Abstract Definition (High level)

21.4.2. Concrete Definition (Low level)

21.4.3. How Deployment File Transfer Works

21.4.4. How File Transfer API Works

21.4.5. How Retrieve File Transfer Works

Chapter 22. Using SSH tunneling for RMI or HTTP communications

22.1. Overview

22.2. Configuration of the network

22.3. ProActive runtime communication patterns

22.4. ProActive application communication patterns.

22.5. ProActive communication protocols

22.6. The rmissh communication protocol.

Chapter 23. Technical Service

23.1. Context

23.2. Overview

23.3. Progamming Guide

23.3.1. A full XML Descriptor File

23.3.2. Nodes Properties

23.4. Further Information