Techne.Runtime

Purpose and Scope

The Runtime module (also nicknamed as TRE - Techne Runtime Environment) executes the actual boot process to bring up the container. It undertakes the following activities:

• Reads the techne.properties file and implement any run parameters (e.g. number of container instances).

• Binds itself to a network address and starts listening for admin-related (not user-related) requests.

• Starts up its service registry, naming, or dictionary service. (To be determined)

• Starts up the ContainerFactory.

• Binds ContainerFactory to Builder.

• Discovers other containers and makes itself known to them.

• Launches the ComponentManager.

• Prepares to host sub-shells.

• Detects if it needs to recover from previous abnormal termination.

• Initializes container instances.

• Starts up admin services such as event management and exception management.

• Runs as a background process.

The TRE is differentiated from the console which provides a command line interface (CLI). See Techne.Console for more details.
TRE and Console do talk over a separate translation layer called Techne Command Processor