Introduction

Apache ACE consists of a number of components, which can be deployed more-or-less independently.

Overview

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Provisioning

Software provisioning is the main task of ACE. The provisioning components are responsible for determining the set of bundles to be deployed to a given target, creating a deployment package, and feeding the deployment package to the Deployment Admin.

Components

Topology

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Further reading

TODO create a child page that describes the provisioning part in more detail

Logging and reporting

ACE contains a logging and reporting facility, known as the audit log. This mechanism allows a target to send back logging information to the server.

The logging mechanism is extensible with extra logging information. The basic implementation will log framework events (e.g., starting and stopping of bundles), and deployment events.

Components

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Further reading

TODO create a child page that shows what the logging is about, and how to add your own logging to the mechanism.