Quarks Providers

Quarks Providers

Overview

A provider provides the capability to execute Quarks applications by providing implementations of various Quarks APIs. Currently two providers are implemented:

• DirectProvider - a minimal provider that provides the topology api direct execution using the etiao runtime. This is the provider expected to executed on devices.
• DevelopmentProvider - a development provider that is aimed at application developers, typically developing the core of an application on a laptop or workstation. It extends DirectProvider to add:
• a development console that visualizes running applications
• control service that registers control MBeans in the platform JMX server
• automatic addition of metrics to submitted applications.

Additional providers may be added in the future to address common requirements.