The Newton Project is a GPL open source developer release of a subset of the commercial Infiniflow Service Fabric product ...

Newton is hosted by the codeCauldron open source community. Established in May 2006, the codeCauldron community is encouraged to look for guidance from the many complex adaptive systems with which we interact on a daily basis. Some 20+ years of academic research into biological and more generally Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS), provide us with the foundations and context for the codeCauldron community endeavors.

Newton is a distributed component framework in which the components can be simple POJOs or wrappers around components based on other models.

Newton recognises the dynamic nature of distributed computing and seeks to address the needs of components living in this world. To this end Newton moves code around the network installing it on demand and removing it when it is no longer in use. Newton also dynamically wires up runtime service dependencies between components and rewires them as service provider components come and go.

Newton describes distributed systems using the emerging SCA standard. Newton provides a highly dynamic SCA implementation. It is able to install and manage SCA composites distributed across a large number of JVMs, continually comparing the deployed composite graph to a specified target state and making adjustments in response to failures and network topology changes.

Newton makes use of OSGi™ technology for building composites within a single JVM, and Jini technology for tracking and wiring up dependencies between composites in different JVMs.

For further information and to download either the open source Newton project or a commercial time-limited evaluation release of Infiniflow, please visit the Downloads section.