Free service architecture software for linux

Adaptive Quality of Service Architecture (AQuoSA) is an open architecture for the provisioning of adaptive Quality of Service functionality into the Linux kernel. The project features a flexible, portable, lightweight and open architecture for supporting soft real-time applications with facilities related to timing guarantees and QoS, on the top of a general-purpose operating system as Linux.
At the core of the architecture there is an adaptive resource reservation layer that is capable of dynamically adapting the CPU allocation for QoS aware applications based on their run-time requirements.
Timing guarantees are provided through an in-kernel reservation based process scheduler, whose services are exposed to applications through a well-designed API.
A supervisor performs admission control, so that admitting into the system new applications with timing guarantees does not affect the timing guarantees of already admitted applications. Also, it takes care of guaranteeing appropriate security policies in the assignment of timing guarantees to users and user groups, as configured by the system administrator.
A feedback-based QoS control layer may be optionally used by applications who want to keep their timing guarantees by using a CPU allocation that is continuously adapted according to their actual needs. This leaverages the programmer, within certain limits, to hard-code any particular reservation amount within the application, because the best allocation is found out automatically at run-time. Also, this enhances the possibilities for the system to host additional QoS controlled applications. The available control algorithms are well founded on formal scheduling models and control theoretical results.
Enhancements:
- This release introduces a couple of flags useful when creating servers. If QOS_F_PERSISTENT is enabled, a server is allowed to exist beyond detach of the last task. If QOS_F_SOFT is enabled, a server tasks are scheduled by the Linux default scheduler/policy, when outside of the server reservation.
- Also, various stability issues in destroying servers have been fixed, also thanks to a new release of the generic scheduler patch for the Linux kernel (gs-2.2).

Af-Arch is being developed to give GNU/Linux a new middle-ware for building enterprise managing applications, typically database oriented.
Af-Arch is a complete set of libraries and tools which allows to develop distribuited system especially designed to face problems about bussiness applications.
Actually, Af-Arch is really robust and stable, having systems installed on many environments. Af-Arch, at this moment, runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows.
AF Architectures license schema is based on GPL and LGPL, allowing you to develop not only open source applications but also comercial applications without any royalty or fee.
Af-Arch is a strongly documented project, which is proved to work. Af-Arch keeps on evolving and growing its feature list allways keeping in mind productivity.
Enhancements:
- A new major stable release have come with many interesting features, library dependencies news, new API to make life easy and a bunch of work to make the library to be memory efficient.
- Af-Arch no longer depends on GDA library (http://www.gnome-db.org). Now AfGs, server side support for Af-Arch, includes built-in database abstraction support, implemented to fit better with the Af-Arch framework. For more details check the "libafgs" log below.
- Af-Arch platform now support three new return types: AfDalNodeData, AfDalStringData and AfDalDecimalData, which allows services to return a module node, a plain string and a decimal value as a result for the invocation.
- Af-Arch now support a new formal parameter service AfDalSetOf which implements set of items to be sent while the service is invoked.
- af-gen tool now support defining string literals that are separated by "+" sign, making it easy to write long SQL sentences.
- af-gen tool now allow to generate type definitions that could extend, making it possible to create a class hierarchy for types to be returned by services.
- libafdal core library now implements a better error reporting mechanism which allows to receive all errors generated while performing invocation at the reply process code.
- New reserved services have been added: element_peek_reference which allows to get the node associated to a module which is relationed through the 0..1 link.

Service Control is a basically it allows you to easily control services. Very very simple.

Currently only for Gentoos service directories, so if you use another distrobution, youll have to edit the initial combo variable to suit your needs.

NEEDS TO BE RUN AS ROOT!

Installation:

The simplest way to compile this package is:

1. `cd to the directory containing the packages source code and type `./configure to configure the package for your system. If youre using `csh on an old version of System V, you might need to type `sh ./configure instead to prevent `csh from trying to execute `configure itself.

Running `configure takes a while. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.

2. Type `make to compile the package.

3. Type `make install to install the programs and any data files and documentation.

4. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing `make clean.

Growler is a C++-based distributed object and event architecture. The software is written in C++, and supports serialization of C++ objects as part of its Remote Method Invocation, Event Channels, and in its Interface Definition Language.

Its primary application has been in support of interactive, distributed and collaborative visualization, computational steering, and concurrent visualization.

Service menus for Debian package contains Konqueror service menus for Debian users. It was developed and tested on Debian Etch.
This package contains the modified versions of the following service menus from kde-apps.org:
1. Alien Tool by Kaisermart
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Alien+Tool?content=33523
Use alien functions in a servicemenu. (Modifications: Improved apparence, different location in context menu.)
2. Debian Service Menu by Redclay
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Debian+Service+Menu?content=16536
Simple kde service menu for managing debian packages. (Modifications: uses Konsole instead of x-term, kdesu instead of sudo for non-root users.)
Actions included:
- Install (dpkg -i)
- Uninstall (dpkg -r)
- Info (dpkg-deb -I && dpkg-deb -c)
- Installed files
- Changelog (changelog.gz)
- Changelog Debian (changelog.Debian.gz)
3. Root Actions Servicemenu by Kubicle
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Root+Actions+Servicemenu?content=48411
(Modifications: Edit with KWrite and Open root Konsole here options were added.)
Actions included:
- Open (with default application)
- Run from here
- Run in Konsole
- Edit with KWrite
- Edit with Kate
- Edit with KHexEdit
- Open in Konqueror
- Open (root) Konsole here
- Change owner to root
- Change owner to user
Enhancements:
- More actions for root (Open with default application, Run from here, Run in Konsole)
- Fixed dependences
- Architecture independent .deb package

Service Management is a Web application that allows users to manage service and repair, including work orders, service scheduling, service calls, preventative maintenance, and customer contact information.
Enhancements:
- Some bugfixes were made for PHP5.
- A new interface was implemented.

FSP stands for File Service Protocol. It is a very lightweight UDP based protocol for transferring files.
FSP has many benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. FSP protocol is valuable in all kinds of environments because it is one of the only TCP/IP protocols that is not aggressive about bandwidth, while still being sufficiently fault tolerant.
FSP is what anonymous FTP *should* be.
FSP: reliable and bandwidth friendly way to access publicly available data. Some people calls it UDP FTP.
Enhancements:
- use getopt from stdio.h instead of getopt.h in fspscan.c
- fspscan now compiles on AIX and other OS without glibc (hoaxter)
- !! fixed fatal bug from b23. Server sends large packets to clients if
- client request has not prefered reply size inside. This confuses all old fsp clients.
- common/strdup.c removed
- bsd_src/function.c bcopy -> memmove
- removed STDC_HEADER checks, drop support for pre-ANSI compilers started work on alternate SCons based build system
- fspd: use urandom, not random -> avoid hangs on Lin suck 2.6
- build system converted to SCons
- !! fixed directory listing bug in client library introduced in beta23
- improvements to security of FSP clients
- seq. numbers are now randomized
- seed random number generator in fsp clients
- check cmd in received packets
- check pos in received packets