Abstract

The purpose of this document is to show the necessary steps required to build, configure and deploy the ESCADA toolkit, a modular reference implementation of replication protocols built on the GORDA Architecture and Programming Interfaces. Since ESCADA relies on group communication for propagating information among replicas, a significant part of this document is devoted to jGCS, a generic interface for group communication, and its default implementation, the Appia toolkit.

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