SmartFrog: Configuration and Automatic Ignition of Distributed Applications

Abstract

This paper provides a general overview of SmartFrog – “Smart Framework for Object Groups ” – a framework for describing, deploying, igniting and managing distributed applications. The SmartFrog framework consists of a description language for specifying the configuration of applications, a deployment infrastructure for realizing the application descriptions, a component model to manage the applications through their life cycle, and a set of useful components that populate the framework to support various forms of application behavior.