The Processing Unit

The Processing Unit is the unit of packaging and deployment in the GigaSpaces platform. This section describes its directory structure, deployment descriptor, and SLA definition and configuration.

• Processing Unit Configuration - You can configure a processing unit to create embedded Spaces, connect to remote Spaces, and more.
• Processing Unit Components - You can creating user-defines components that execute user-defined code on the server side.
• Cluster Information - Information about the clustering topology, member ID and other related information can be provided to the Processing Unit instances at deployment time.