Manual Overview
Service Agents | Describes how to create service agents, add them |
| to groups, subscribe to announcements regarding |
| specific services or membership of specific serv- |
| ice groups. |
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Service Reports | Describes how to subscribe to reports published |
| by specific services. Ie., describes the publish/ |
| subscribe functionality provided by the service |
| agent framework. |
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Service Requests | Describes how to send requests to remote or |
| local service agents and how to handle any |
| response or error which results. Ie., describes the |
| messaging or request/reply functionality of the |
| service agent framework. |
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Message Exchange | Describes how to connect up processes to form a |
| distributed application, including a decentralised |
| message exchange and exchange groups. |
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Message Encoding | Describes the Python types which can be used in |
| messages and how this can be extended to incor- |
| porate new scalar data types. |
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Servlet Framework | Describes the HTTP daemon and servlet frame- |
| work, including the predefined servlets and how |
| to create customised HTTP server objects. |
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Servlet Objects | Describes how to create new servlet objects |
| including how to handle forms, client congestion |
| and delayed responses. |
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Servlet Plugins | Describes how to create servlet plugins and how |
| to use the Python plugin to dynamically load |
| servlets at runtime from the file system. |
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Remote Access | Describes the RPC over HTTP interfaces into the |
| service agent framework, including support for |
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