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Your First XAP Application


Summary: This tutorial explains how to build your first GigaSpaces Application in 4 easy steps, from basic API usage to scaling your application and making it highly available

Before You Begin - Set Up Your Environment

Follow these instructions to download and install the latest version of XAP.

|The sample application used in all steps is located in \examples\helloworld

Quick Start Guide Steps

We recommend that you follow these 4 basic tutorials in the specified order:

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Using Processing Units for Scaling ~5 minutes

A short introduction that shows what a Processing Unit is, and how it is used for scaling your applications

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Creating the Hello World Application ~10 minutes

How to create, deploy, run and monitor your Processing Unit

. How to Create a scalable application using Processing Units

. How to run a Processing Unit within your IDE

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Deploying the Hello World Application onto the ServiceGrid ~10 minutes

How to deploy the Hello World Processing Unit onto the grid enabled infrastructure (the ServiceGrid) to enable instant fail-over, recovery, SLA management and runtime monitoring capabilities for your application

. What the Service Grid is

. How to Start the Service Grid

. ~How to Use the Grid Manager (GSM) and the Grid Container(GSC)~ . How to Deploy an application onto the Service Grid with the Management UI

. How to Monitor the Service Grid and deployed applications during runtime

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Scaling the Hello World Application ~10 minutes

How to scale the Hello World Processing Unit application

. How to use GigaSpaces’ clustering and partitioning capabilities to scale the Hello World Processing Unit application

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Go Beyond the Basics

After you have learned the basics, you can go to the more advanced tutorials to dive into the details, and learn how to implement real world scenarios.