What advantages does SmartFrog offer?
First, SmartFrog allows you to take all the details of a software system that can be considered configuration-related and record them in one place as part of a SmartFrog system description. This means it is very easy to make changes to the configuration of the system and hence change the operation of the system when it is installed and started. The description method also allows systems to be built from pre-defined templates, and allows systems to be constructed from sub-systems. We call such systems “configuration-driven”. Secondly, given the SmartFrog descriptions, systems can be installed, started, stopped and uninstalled completely automatically. This means that a given system description can be installed automatically, with multiple instances, and that this can be done repeatably and correctly. This functionality makes SmartFrog ideal for utility computing applications – which need to be automatically installed and started on utility computing resources, repeatedly, and removed cl
