P3s

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Overview

General notes on design and deployment (some of historical interest) can be found on a separate page: "P3s notes ". On that page, the basics of the pilot framework approach to p3s design and implementation are explained.

What is presented below is a brief "how-to" for p3s.

Clients and Servers

The user interacts with the system by means of clients. This is the only way to change the state of the server and the objects it contains it its database.

The p3s server provides the following set of functionality:

  • creates entities e.g. job records in its database, according to messages received from clients which may be actuated by the user or run as a part of an automated script
  • changes the state of entities