• Developer's Guide

Developer's Guide

GridGain developers guide is a short read. In fact, this was a goal to keep this part of the wiki documentation within 2-3 hours of careful reading. We split the load of the documenting between this guide and Javadoc documentation. The rational here is that once the reader looked through the developers guide he or she should have a good grasp on the ideas behind GridGain - and from there on the Javadoc is becoming a main source for specific documentation on details of APIs.

We also highly recommend looking at examples while reading the developers guide as they provide "live" code examples in simple settings.

How To Read This Guide

We suggest you read this guide in this order:

1. Basic Concepts
   • This will give you a quick intro into basic terminology used in GridGain.
2. Grid Interface
   • This will give you detailed yet condensed explanation of how to write your own grid tasks.
3. [Creating Grid Tasks And Grid Jobs]
   • This will give you an overview on creating grid tasks.
4. Grid Deployment
   • This will give you an overview on how to deploy grid tasks.
5. Executing Grid Task
   • This will give you an overview on how to execute grid tasks.
6. SPI - Service Provider Interfaces
   • This section describes how to configure SPIs.

     Skip SPI Configuration... You can skip SPI sections if you are planning on using default configuration. Note that default configuration should satisfy most of the evaluation and many production use cases. If you don't plant to re-configure SPIs - you can simply forget that SPIs exist as they are not exposed on application level of GridGain.