Container Services

The Openwings container provides an environment for executing Openwings services. The container addresses the need for process lifecycle management, clustering/load balancing, security, handling of mobile code and overall service availability in a distributed environment. 

Key functionality for Container Services

1. Provides the ability to launch services on a local or remote platform.
2. Provides process lifecycle management.
3. Load Balancing
4. Provides the ability to assign several Java processes to a single JVM so that they operate as they would normally, without interfering with one another.
5. Includes system reliability features to include process auto-restart, warm fail-over, and cold fail-over
6. Provides information for Java and non-Java processes running on a system.
7. Enforces code security for Java processes (see security specification).
8. Provides pause and resume functionality for Java processes.
9. Provides monitoring of key platform indicators including memory, processing, and network utilization.
10. Supports boot-time activation for Java and non-Java processes.

Documentation and Tutorials 

Container Services Specification
Container Services JavaDoc Documentation
Failure Recovery Tutorial

 

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