What technologies does SmartFrog consist of?
There are three main parts to the SmartFrog framework. The first is a configuration description language to define the configuration data appropriate to the SmartFrog components. The language has many convenient features for describing configuration data, and provides the notions of abstraction and template creation which are necessary to build complex configuration definitions. The second part is a “component model” — a specification of how SmartFrog components are written and integrated into the SmartFrog framework. This includes aspects such as the lifecycle of a SmartFrog component and mechanisms for checking what state the component is in (such as whether it is still “alive”). The components are responsible for interpreting the configuration details given in the SmartFrog language and then carrying out the necessary configuration tasks base on these details. SmartFrog includes some standard components – offering features such as component sequencing, distributed workflows, failur
