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OTP Design Principles
User's Guide
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Overview
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Supervision Trees
Behaviours
Applications
Releases
Release Handling
Gen_Server Behaviour
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Client-Server Principles
Example
Starting a Gen_Server
Synchronous Requests - Call
Asynchronous Requests - Cast
Stopping
Handling Other Messages
Gen_Fsm Behaviour
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Finite State Machines
Example
Starting a Gen_Fsm
Notifying About Events
Timeouts
All State Events
Stopping
Handling Other Messages
Gen_Event Behaviour
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Event Handling Principles
Example
Starting an Event Manager
Adding an Event Handler
Notifying About Events
Deleting an Event Handler
Stopping
Supervisor Behaviour
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Supervision Principles
Example
Restart Strategy
Maximum Restart Frequency
Child Specification
Starting a Supervisor
Adding a Child Process
Stopping a Child Process
Simple-One-For-One Supervisors
Stopping
Sys and Proc_Lib
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Simple Debugging
Special Processes
User-Defined Behaviours
Applications
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Application Concept
Application Callback Module
Application Resource File
Directory Structure
Application Controller
Loading and Unloading Applications
Starting and Stopping Applications
Configuring an Application
Application Start Types
Included Applications
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Definition
Specifying Included Applications
Synchronizing Processes During Startup
Distributed Applications
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Definition
Specifying Distributed Applications
Starting and Stopping Distributed Applications
Failover
Takeover
Releases
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Release Concept
Release Resource File
Generating Boot Scripts
Creating a Release Package
Directory Structure
Release Handling
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Release Handling Principles
Requirements
Distributed Systems
Release Handling Instructions
Application Upgrade File
Release Upgrade File
Installing a Release
Updating Application Specifications
Appup Cookbook
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Changing a Functional Module
Changing a Residence Module
Changing a Callback Module
Changing Internal State
Module Dependencies
Changing Code For a Special Process
Changing a Supervisor
Adding or Deleting a Module
Starting or Terminating a Process
Adding or Removing an Application
Restarting an Application
Changing an Application Specification
Changing Application Configuration
Changing Included Applications
Changing Non-Erlang Code
Emulator Restart
OTP Design Principles User's Guide
Version 5.7.5
February 22 2010