How This Book Is Organized

This book is divided into four chapters and two appendixes that present different aspects of the hot restart feature.

• Chapter 1, Introduction provides a general introduction to what hot restart is and does, and how it is incorporated in the ChorusOS 4.0 system architecture.

• Chapter 2, Getting Started With Hot Restart is a step-by-step guide to getting up and running with hot restart, from configuring the system to running the hot restart demonstration application.

• Chapter 3, Programming With Persistent Memory takes an in-depth look at how the persistent memory API provided by hot restart can be used. The persistent memory API can be used by any ChorusOS actor.

• Chapter 4, Programming With Restartable Actors describes the API used for developing restartable actors, and explains how the hot restart mechanism works from a programming point of view.

• Appendix A, Hot Restart Programming Environment provides information of use to developers for compiling actors that use the hot restart API.

• Appendix B, Example Application Code lists the code of the examples used in the body of this guide.