Chapter 2. Introduction

This document is addressed to Servent users, Servent administrators and service developers, not to Servent developers. We will learn how to install a new Servent, how to make and deploy applications in it and how the communication is performed.

Other information about the Servent implementation and about the core itself is not explained here. Because the Servent is under construction this implementation information changes quickly and there is not a formal document at the moment.

The Servent can be seen as a service container. Something similar to any J2EE or Tomcat but made for service deployment, not servlets, beans, JSPs or HTML.

The main function of the servent is to make the remote communication easy as well as the deployment and creation of services, trying to make the development process simple. The servent itself also must provide different communication protocols and different ways to communicate (UserInterfaces, ProtocolAdaptre, DynamicProxy...)