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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+<!--+
+    |  This is the Apache Cocoon command line configuration file.
+    |  Here you give the command line interface details of where
+    |  to find various aspects of your Cocoon installation.
+    |
+    |  If you wish, you can also use this file to specify the URIs
+    |  that you wish to generate.
+    |
+    |  The current configuration information in this file is for
+    |  building the Cocoon documentation. Therefore, all links here
+    |  are relative to the build context dir, which, in the build.xml
+    |  file, is set to ${build.context}
+    |
+    |  Options:
+    |    verbose:            increase amount of information presented
+    |                        to standard output (default: false)
+    |    follow-links:       whether linked pages should also be
+    |                        generated (default: true)
+    |    precompile-only:    precompile sitemaps and XSP pages, but
+    |                        do not generate any pages (default: false)
+    |    confirm-extensions: check the mime type for the generated page
+    |                        and adjust filename and links extensions
+    |                        to match the mime type
+    |                        (e.g. text/html->.html)
+    |
+    |  Note: Whilst using an xconf file to configure the Cocoon
+    |        Command Line gives access to more features, the use of
+    |        command line parameters is more stable, as there are
+    |        currently plans to improve the xconf format to allow
+    |        greater flexibility. If you require a stable and
+    |        consistent method for accessing the CLI, it is recommended
+    |        that you use the command line parameters to configure
+    |        the CLI. See documentation at:
+    |        http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/offline/
+    |        http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/CommandLine
+    |
+    +-->
+
+<cocoon verbose="true"
+        follow-links="true"
+        precompile-only="false"
+        confirm-extensions="false">
+
+   <!--+
+       |  The context directory is usually the webapp directory
+       |  containing the sitemap.xmap file.
+       |
+       |  The config file is the cocoon.xconf file.
+       |
+       |  The work directory is used by Cocoon to store temporary
+       |  files and cache files.
+       |
+       |  The destination directory is where generated pages will
+       |  be written (assuming the 'simple' mapper is used, see
+       |  below)
+       +-->
+   <context-dir>.</context-dir>
+   <config-file>WEB-INF/cocoon.xconf</config-file>
+   <work-dir>../tmp/cocoon-work</work-dir>
+   <dest-dir>../site</dest-dir>
+
+   <!--+
+       |  A checksum file can be used to store checksums for pages
+       |  as they are generated. When the site is next generated,
+       |  files will not be written if their checksum has not changed.
+       |  This means that it will be easier to detect which files
+       |  need to be uploaded to a server, using the timestamp.
+       |
+       |  The default path is relative to the core webapp directory.
+       |  An asolute path can be used.
+       +-->
+   <!--   <checksums-uri>build/work/checksums</checksums-uri>-->
+
+   <!--+
+       | Broken link reporting options:
+       |   Report into a text file, one link per line:
+       |     <broken-links type="text" report="filename"/>
+       |   Report into an XML file:
+       |     <broken-links type="xml" report="filename"/>
+       |   Ignore broken links (default):
+       |     <broken-links type="none"/>
+       |
+       |   Two attributes to this node specify whether a page should
+       |   be generated when an error has occurred. 'generate' specifies
+       |   whether a page should be generated (default: true) and
+       |   extension specifies an extension that should be appended
+       |   to the generated page's filename (default: none)
+       |
+       |   Using this, a quick scan through the destination directory
+       |   will show broken links, by their filename extension.
+       +-->
+   <broken-links type="xml"
+                 file="../brokenlinks.xml"
+                 generate="false"
+                 extension=".error"
+                 show-referrers="true"/>
+
+   <!--+
+       |  Load classes at startup. This is necessary for generating
+       |  from sites that use SQL databases and JDBC.
+       |  The <load-class> element can be repeated if multiple classes
+       |  are needed.
+       +-->
+   <!--
+   <load-class>org.firebirdsql.jdbc.Driver</load-class>
+   -->
+
+   <!--+
+       |  Configures logging.
+       |  The 'log-kit' parameter specifies the location of the log kit
+       |  configuration file (usually called logkit.xconf.
+       |
+       |  Logger specifies the logging category (for all logging prior
+       |  to other Cocoon logging categories taking over)
+       |
+       |  Available log levels are:
+       |    DEBUG:        prints all level of log messages.
+       |    INFO:         prints all level of log messages except DEBUG
+       |                  ones.
+       |    WARN:         prints all level of log messages except DEBUG
+       |                  and INFO ones.
+       |    ERROR:        prints all level of log messages except DEBUG,
+       |                  INFO and WARN ones.
+       |    FATAL_ERROR:  prints only log messages of this level
+       +-->
+   <!-- <logging log-kit="WEB-INF/logkit.xconf" logger="cli" level="ERROR" /> 
-->
+
+   <!--+
+       |  Specifies the filename to be appended to URIs that
+       |  refer to a directory (i.e. end with a forward slash).
+       +-->
+   <default-filename>index.html</default-filename>
+
+   <!--+
+       |  Specifies a user agent string to the sitemap when
+       |  generating the site.
+       |
+       |  A generic term for a web browser is "user agent". Any
+       |  user agent, when connecting to a web server, will provide
+       |  a string to identify itself (e.g. as Internet Explorer or
+       |  Mozilla). It is possible to have Cocoon serve different
+       |  content depending upon the user agent string provided by
+       |  the browser. If your site does this, then you may want to
+       |  use this <user-agent> entry to provide a 'fake' user agent
+       |  to Cocoon, so that it generates the correct version of your
+       |  site.
+       |
+       |  For most sites, this can be ignored.
+       +-->
+   <!--
+   <user-agent>Cocoon Command Line Environment 2.1</user-agent>
+   -->
+
+   <!--+
+       |  Specifies an accept string to the sitemap when generating
+       |  the site.
+       |  User agents can specify to an HTTP server what types of content
+       |  (by mime-type) they are able to receive. E.g. a browser may be
+       |  able to handle jpegs, but not pngs. The HTTP accept header
+       |  allows the server to take the browser's capabilities into account,
+       |  and only send back content that it can handle.
+       |
+       |  For most sites, this can be ignored.
+       +-->
+
+   <accept>*/*</accept>
+
+   <!--+
+       | Specifies which URIs should be included or excluded, according
+       | to wildcard patterns.
+       |
+       | These includes/excludes are only relevant when you are following
+       | links. A link URI must match an include pattern (if one is given)
+       | and not match an exclude pattern, if it is to be followed by
+       | Cocoon. It can be useful, for example, where there are links in
+       | your site to pages that are not generated by Cocoon, such as
+       | references to api-documentation.
+       |
+       | By default, all URIs are included. If both include and exclude
+       | patterns are specified, a URI is first checked against the
+       | include patterns, and then against the exclude patterns.
+       |
+       | Multiple patterns can be given, using muliple include or exclude
+       | nodes.
+       |
+       | The order of the elements is not significant, as only the first
+       | successful match of each category is used.
+       |
+       | Currently, only the complete source URI can be matched (including
+       | any URI prefix). Future plans include destination URI matching
+       | and regexp matching. If you have requirements for these, contact
+       | [email protected].
+       +-->
+
+   <exclude pattern="**/"/>
+   <exclude pattern="**apidocs**"/>
+   <exclude pattern="api/**"/>
+
+   <!-- ZOOKEEPER-2364 - we build our own release notes separately -->
+   <exclude pattern="releasenotes.**"/>
+
+<!--
+  This is a workaround for FOR-284 "link rewriting broken when
+  linking to xml source views which contain site: links".
+  See the explanation there and in declare-broken-site-links.xsl
+-->
+   <exclude pattern="site:**"/>
+   <exclude pattern="ext:**"/>
+   <exclude pattern="lm:**"/>
+   <exclude pattern="**/site:**"/>
+   <exclude pattern="**/ext:**"/>
+   <exclude pattern="**/lm:**"/>
+
+   <!-- Exclude tokens used in URLs to ASF mirrors (interpreted by a CGI) -->
+   <exclude pattern="[preferred]/**"/>
+   <exclude pattern="[location]"/>
+
+   <!--   <include-links extension=".html"/>-->
+
+   <!--+
+       |  <uri> nodes specify the URIs that should be generated, and
+       |  where required, what should be done with the generated pages.
+       |  They describe the way the URI of the generated file is created
+       |  from the source page's URI. There are three ways that a generated
+       |  file URI can be created: append, replace and insert.
+       |
+       |  The "type" attribute specifies one of (append|replace|insert):
+       |
+       |  append:
+       |  Append the generated page's URI to the end of the source URI:
+       |
+       |   <uri type="append" src-prefix="documents/" src="index.html"
+       |   dest="build/dest/"/>
+       |
+       |  This means that
+       |   (1) the "documents/index.html" page is generated
+       |   (2) the file will be written to "build/dest/documents/index.html"
+       |
+       |  replace:
+       |  Completely ignore the generated page's URI - just
+       |  use the destination URI:
+       |
+       |   <uri type="replace" src-prefix="documents/" src="index.html"
+       |   dest="build/dest/docs.html"/>
+       |
+       |  This means that
+       |   (1) the "documents/index.html" page is generated
+       |   (2) the result is written to "build/dest/docs.html"
+       |   (3) this works only for "single" pages - and not when links
+       |       are followed
+       |
+       |  insert:
+       |  Insert generated page's URI into the destination
+       |  URI at the point marked with a * (example uses fictional
+       |  zip protocol)
+       |
+       |   <uri type="insert" src-prefix="documents/" src="index.html"
+       |   dest="zip://*.zip/page.html"/>
+       |
+       |  This means that
+       |   (1)
+       |
+       |  In any of these scenarios, if the dest attribute is omitted,
+       |  the value provided globally using the <dest-dir> node will
+       |  be used instead.
+       +-->
+   <!--
+   <uri type="replace"
+        src-prefix="samples/"
+        src="hello-world/hello.html"
+        dest="build/dest/hello-world.html"/>
+   -->
+
+   <!--+
+       | <uri> nodes can be grouped together in a <uris> node. This
+       | enables a group of URIs to share properties. The following
+       | properties can be set for a group of URIs:
+       |   * follow-links:       should pages be crawled for links
+       |   * confirm-extensions: should file extensions be checked
+       |                         for the correct mime type
+       |   * src-prefix:         all source URIs should be
+       |                         pre-pended with this prefix before
+       |                         generation. The prefix is not
+       |                         included when calculating the
+       |                         destination URI
+       |   * dest:               the base destination URI to be
+       |                         shared by all pages in this group
+       |   * type:               the method to be used to calculate
+       |                         the destination URI. See above
+       |                         section on <uri> node for details.
+       |
+       | Each <uris> node can have a name attribute. When a name
+       | attribute has been specified, the -n switch on the command
+       | line can be used to tell Cocoon to only process the URIs
+       | within this URI group. When no -n switch is given, all
+       | <uris> nodes are processed. Thus, one xconf file can be
+       | used to manage multiple sites.
+       +-->
+   <!--
+   <uris name="mirrors" follow-links="false">
+     <uri type="append" src="mirrors.html"/>
+   </uris>
+   -->
+
+   <!--+
+       |  File containing URIs (plain text, one per line).
+       +-->
+   <!--
+   <uri-file>uris.txt</uri-file>
+   -->
+</cocoon>

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+
+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Simplified DocBook XML V1.0//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/simple/1.0/sdocbook.dtd";>
+<article id="bk_Admin">
+  <title>BookKeeper Administrator's Guide</title>
+
+  <subtitle>Setup Guide</subtitle>
+
+  <articleinfo>
+    <legalnotice>
+      <para>Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+      you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
+      obtain a copy of the License at <ulink
+      
url="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0";>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0</ulink>.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+      software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
+      BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+      implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions
+      and limitations under the License.
+      </para>
+    </legalnotice>
+
+    <abstract>
+      <para>This document contains information about deploying, administering
+      and mantaining BookKeeper. It also discusses best practices and common
+      problems.
+      </para>
+         <para> As BookKeeper is still a prototype, this article is likely to 
change
+         significantly over time. 
+         </para>
+    </abstract>
+  </articleinfo>
+
+  <section id="bk_deployment">
+    <title>Deployment</title>
+
+    <para>This section contains information about deploying BookKeeper and
+    covers these topics:</para>
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para><xref linkend="bk_sysReq" /></para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para><xref linkend="bk_runningBookies" /></para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para><xref linkend="bk_zkMetadata" /></para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    
+    <para> The first section tells you how many machines you need. The second 
explains how to bootstrap bookies
+     (BookKeeper storage servers). The third section explains how we use 
ZooKeeper and our requirements with
+     respect to ZooKeeper.
+    </para>
+    
+    <section id="bk_sysReq">
+          <title>System requirements</title>
+          <para> A typical BookKeeper installation comprises a set of bookies 
and a set of ZooKeeper replicas. The exact number of bookies
+          depends on the quorum mode, desired throughput, and number of 
clients using this installation simultaneously. The minimum number of
+          bookies is three for self-verifying (stores a message authentication 
code along with each entry) and four for generic (does not
+          store a message authentication codewith each entry), and there is no 
upper limit on the number of bookies. Increasing the number of 
+          bookies, in fact, enables higher throughput.
+          </para>
+          
+          <para> For performance, we require each server to have at least two 
disks. It is possible to run a bookie with a single disk, but 
+          performance will be significantly lower in this case. Of course, it 
works with one disk, but performance is significantly lower. 
+          </para>
+
+          <para> For ZooKeeper, there is no constraint with respect to the 
number of replicas. Having a single machine running ZooKeeper
+          in standalone mode is sufficient for BookKeeper. For resilience 
purposes, it might be a good idea to run ZooKeeper in quorum 
+          mode with multiple servers. Please refer to the ZooKeeper 
documentation for detail on how to configure ZooKeeper with multiple
+          replicas
+          </para>    
+     </section>
+     
+     <section id="bk_runningBookies">
+          <title>Running bookies</title>
+          <para>
+          To run a bookie, we execute the following command:
+          </para>
+          
+          <para><computeroutput>
+               java -cp 
.:./zookeeper-&lt;version&gt;-bookkeeper.jar:./zookeeper-&lt;version&gt;.jar\
+               :../log4j/apache-log4j-1.2.15/log4j-1.2.15.jar 
-Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.properties\ 
+               org.apache.bookkeeper.proto.BookieServer 3181 127.0.0.1:2181 
/path_to_log_device/\
+               /path_to_ledger_device/
+          </computeroutput></para>
+          
+          <para>
+          The parameters are:
+          </para>
+          
+          <itemizedlist>
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+                       Port number that the bookie listens on;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+                       Comma separated list of ZooKeeper servers with a 
hostname:port format;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+                       Path for Log Device (stores bookie write-ahead log);
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+                       Path for Ledger Device (stores ledger entries);
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+          </itemizedlist>
+          
+          <para>
+          Ideally, <computeroutput>/path_to_log_device/ </computeroutput> and 
<computeroutput>/path_to_ledger_device/ </computeroutput> are each
+          in a different device. 
+          </para>
+        </section>
+        
+        <section id="bk_zkMetadata">
+          <title>ZooKeeper Metadata</title>
+          <para>
+          For BookKeeper, we require a ZooKeeper installation to store 
metadata, and to pass the list
+          of ZooKeeper servers as parameter to the constructor of the 
BookKeeper class (<computeroutput>
+          org.apache.bookkeeper.client,BookKeeper</computeroutput>).
+          To setup ZooKeeper, please check the <ulink url="index.html">
+          ZooKeeper documentation</ulink>.
+          </para>
+        </section>
+  </section>
+</article>

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+
+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Simplified DocBook XML V1.0//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/simple/1.0/sdocbook.dtd";>
+<article id="bk_GettStartedGuide">
+  <title>BookKeeper overview</title>
+
+  <articleinfo>
+    <legalnotice>
+      <para>Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+      you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
+      obtain a copy of the License at <ulink
+      
url="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0";>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0</ulink>.</para>
+
+      <para>Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+      software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
+      BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+      implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions
+      and limitations under the License.</para>
+    </legalnotice>
+
+    <abstract>
+      <para>This guide contains detailed information about using BookKeeper
+      for logging. It discusses the basic operations BookKeeper supports, 
+      and how to create logs and perform basic read and write operations on 
these
+      logs.</para>
+    </abstract>
+  </articleinfo>
+  <section id="bk_Overview">
+  <title>BookKeeper overview</title>
+    
+  <section id="bk_Intro">
+    <title>BookKeeper introduction</title>
+       <para>
+       BookKeeper is a replicated service to reliably log streams of records. 
In BookKeeper, 
+       servers are "bookies", log streams are "ledgers", and each unit of a 
log (aka record) is a 
+       "ledger entry". BookKeeper is designed to be reliable; bookies, the 
servers that store 
+       ledgers, can crash, corrupt data, discard data, but as long as there 
are enough bookies 
+       behaving correctly the service as a whole behaves correctly.
+       </para>
+
+       <para>
+    The initial motivation for BookKeeper comes from the namenode of HDFS. 
Namenodes have to 
+    log operations in a reliable fashion so that recovery is possible in the 
case of crashes. 
+    We have found the applications for BookKeeper extend far beyond HDFS, 
however. Essentially, 
+    any application that requires an append storage can replace their 
implementations with
+    BookKeeper. BookKeeper has the advantage of scaling throughput with the 
number of servers. 
+    </para>
+       
+       <para>
+    At a high level, a bookkeeper client receives entries from a client 
application and stores it to
+    sets of bookies, and there are a few advantages in having such a service:
+       </para>
+
+       <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+    <para>
+       We can use hardware that is optimized for such a service. We currently 
believe that such a
+       system has to be optimized only for disk I/O;
+    </para>
+    </listitem>
+    
+    <listitem>
+    <para>
+       We can have a pool of servers implementing such a log system, and 
shared among a number of servers;
+    </para>
+    </listitem>
+    
+    <listitem>
+    <para>
+       We can have a higher degree of replication with such a pool, which 
makes sense if the hardware necessary for it is cheaper compared to the one the 
application uses. 
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       </itemizedlist>
+
+       </section>
+       
+       <section id="bk_moreDetail">
+    <title>In slightly more detail...</title>
+    
+    <para> BookKeeper implements highly available logs, and it has been 
designed with write-ahead logging in mind. Besides high availability
+    due to the replicated nature of the service, it provides high throughput 
due to striping. As we write entries in a subset of bookies of an
+    ensemble and rotate writes across available quorums, we are able to 
increase throughput with the number of servers for both reads and writes. 
+    Scalability is a property that is possible to achieve in this case due to 
the use of quorums. Other replication techniques, such as 
+    state-machine replication, do not enable such a property. 
+    </para> 
+    
+       <para> An application first creates a ledger before writing to bookies 
through a local BookKeeper client instance.   
+       Upon creating a ledger, a BookKeeper client writes metadata about the 
ledger to ZooKeeper. Each ledger currently 
+       has a single writer. This writer has to execute a close ledger 
operation before any other client can read from it. 
+       If the writer of a ledger does not close a ledger properly because, for 
example, it has crashed before having the 
+       opportunity of closing the ledger, then the next client that tries to 
open a ledger executes a procedure to recover
+       it. As closing a ledger consists essentially of writing the last entry 
written to a ledger to ZooKeeper, the recovery
+       procedure simply finds the last entry written correctly and writes it 
to ZooKeeper.     
+       </para>
+               
+       <para>
+       Note that currently this recovery procedure is executed automatically 
upon trying to open a ledger and no explicit action is necessary. 
+       Although two clients may try to recover a ledger concurrently, only one 
will succeed, the first one that is able to create the close znode
+       for the ledger.
+       </para> 
+       </section>  
+          
+    <section id="bk_basicComponents">
+    <title>Bookkeeper elements and concepts</title>
+       <para> 
+       BookKeeper uses four basic elements:
+       </para>
+       
+       <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+      <para> 
+               <emphasis role="bold">Ledger</emphasis>: A ledger is a sequence 
of entries, and each entry is a sequence of bytes. Entries are
+               written sequentially to a ledger and at most once. 
Consequently, ledgers have an append-only semantics;
+         </para>
+         </listitem>
+       
+         <listitem>
+         <para> 
+               <emphasis role="bold">BookKeeper client</emphasis>: A client 
runs along with a BookKeeper application, and it enables applications
+               to execute operations on ledgers, such as creating a ledger and 
writing to it; 
+         </para>
+         </listitem> 
+       
+         <listitem>
+         <para>
+               <emphasis role="bold">Bookie</emphasis>: A bookie is a 
BookKeeper storage server. Bookies store the content of ledgers. For any given
+               ledger L, we call an <emphasis>ensemble</emphasis> the group of 
bookies storing the content of L. For performance, we store on
+               each bookie of an ensemble only a fragment of a ledger. That 
is, we stripe when writing entries to a ledger such that
+               each entry is written to sub-group of bookies of the ensemble.
+         </para>
+         </listitem>
+
+         <listitem>
+         <para>        
+               <emphasis role="bold">Metadata storage service</emphasis>: 
BookKeeper requires a metadata storage service to store information related 
+               to ledgers and available bookies. We currently use ZooKeeper 
for such a task.     
+         </para>
+         </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    </section>
+    
+    <section id="bk_initialDesign">
+    <title>Bookkeeper initial design</title>
+    <para>
+    A set of bookies implements BookKeeper, and we use a quorum-based protocol 
to replicate data across the bookies. 
+    There are basically two operations to an existing ledger: read and append. 
Here is the complete API list 
+    (mode detail <ulink url="bookkeeperProgrammer.html">
+             here</ulink>):
+       </para>
+       
+       <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para>
+       Create ledger: creates a new empty ledger; 
+    </para>
+    </listitem>
+    
+    <listitem>
+       <para>
+       Open ledger: opens an existing ledger for reading;
+    </para>
+    </listitem>
+    
+    <listitem>
+       <para>
+       Add entry: adds a record to a ledger either synchronously or 
asynchronously;
+    </para>
+    </listitem>
+    
+    <listitem>
+       <para>
+    Read entries: reads a sequence of entries from a ledger either 
synchronously or asynchronously 
+       </para>
+    </listitem>
+       </itemizedlist>
+
+       <para>
+       There is only a single client that can write to a ledger. Once that 
ledger is closed or the client fails, 
+       no more entries can be added. (We take advantage of this behavior to 
provide our strong guarantees.) 
+       There will not be gaps in the ledger. Fingers get broken, people get 
roughed up or end up in prison when
+       books are manipulated, so there is no deleting or changing of entries.
+       </para>
+
+       <figure>
+        <title>BookKeeper Overview</title>
+       
+               <mediaobject>
+        <imageobject>
+            <imagedata fileref="images/bk-overview.jpg" width="3in" 
depth="3in" contentwidth="3in" contentdepth="3in" scalefit="0"/>
+        </imageobject>
+        </mediaobject>
+    </figure>
+
+       <para>
+    A simple use of BooKeeper is to implement a write-ahead transaction log. A 
server maintains an in-memory data structure
+    (with periodic snapshots for example) and logs changes to that structure 
before it applies the change. The application 
+    server creates a ledger at startup and store the ledger id and password in 
a well known place (ZooKeeper maybe). When 
+    it needs to make a change, the server adds an entry with the change 
information to a ledger and apply the change when 
+    BookKeeper adds the entry successfully. The server can even use 
asyncAddEntry to queue up many changes for high change
+    throughput. BooKeeper meticulously logs the changes in order and call the 
completion functions in order.
+       </para>
+
+       <para>
+    When the application server dies, a backup server will come online, get 
the last snapshot and then it will open the 
+    ledger of the old server and read all the entries from the time the 
snapshot was taken. (Since it doesn't know the 
+    last entry number it will use MAX_INTEGER). Once all the entries have been 
processed, it will close the ledger and 
+    start a new one for its use. 
+       </para>
+       
+       <para>
+       A client library takes care of communicating with bookies and managing 
entry numbers. An entry has the following fields:
+       </para>
+
+       <table frame='all'><title>Entry fields</title>
+       <tgroup cols='3' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
+       <colspec colname='Field'/>
+       <colspec colname='Type'/>
+       <colspec colname='Description'/>
+       <colspec colnum='5' colname='c5'/>
+       <thead>
+       <row>
+       <entry>Field</entry>
+       <entry>Type</entry>
+       <entry>Description</entry>
+       </row>
+       </thead>
+       <tfoot>
+       <row>
+       <entry>Ledger number</entry>
+       <entry>long</entry>
+       <entry>The id of the ledger of this entry</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+       <entry>Entry number</entry>
+       <entry>long</entry>
+       <entry>The id of this entry</entry>
+       </row>
+       </tfoot>
+       <tbody>
+       <row>
+       <entry>last confirmed (<emphasis>LC</emphasis>)</entry>
+       <entry>long</entry>
+       <entry>id of the last recorded entry</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+       <entry>data</entry>
+       <entry>byte[]</entry>
+       <entry>the entry data (supplied by application)</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+       <entry>authentication code</entry>
+       <entry>byte[]</entry>
+       <entry>Message authentication code that includes all other fields of 
the entry</entry>
+       </row>
+       
+       </tbody>
+       </tgroup>
+       </table>
+
+       <para>
+       The client library generates a ledger entry. None of the fields are 
modified by the bookies and only the first three 
+       fields are interpreted by the bookies.
+       </para>
+
+       <para>
+       To add to a ledger, the client generates the entry above using the 
ledger number. The entry number will be one more 
+       than the last entry generated. The <emphasis>LC</emphasis> field 
contains the last entry that has been successfully recorded by BookKeeper. 
+       If the client writes entries one at a time, <emphasis>LC</emphasis> is 
the last entry id. But, if the client is using asyncAddEntry, there 
+       may be many entries in flight. An entry is considered recorded when 
both of the following conditions are met:
+       </para>
+
+       <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+    <para>
+       the entry has been accepted by a quorum of bookies
+    </para>
+    </listitem>
+    
+    <listitem>
+    <para>
+       all entries with a lower entry id have been accepted by a quorum of 
bookies 
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis>LC</emphasis> seems mysterious right now, but it is too early 
to explain how we use it; just smile and move on.
+       </para>
+       
+       <para>
+       Once all the other fields have been field in, the client generates an 
authentication code with all of the previous fields. 
+       The entry is then sent to a quorum of bookies to be recorded. Any 
failures will result in the entry being sent to a new
+       quorum of bookies.
+       </para>
+
+       <para>
+       To read, the client library initially contacts a bookie and starts 
requesting entries. If an entry is missing or 
+       invalid (a bad MAC for example), the client will make a request to a 
different bookie. By using quorum writes, 
+       as long as enough bookies are up we are guaranteed to eventually be 
able to read an entry.
+       </para>
+       
+       </section>
+
+       <section id="bk_metadata">
+    <title>Bookkeeper metadata management</title>
+
+       <para>
+       There are some meta data that needs to be made available to BookKeeper 
clients:
+       </para>
+       
+       <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para>
+               The available bookies;
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+       <para>
+       The list of ledgers;
+    </para>
+    </listitem>
+    
+    <listitem>
+       <para>
+       The list of bookies that have been used for a given ledger;
+    </para>
+    </listitem>
+    
+    <listitem>
+       <para>
+       The last entry of a ledger; 
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       </itemizedlist>
+       
+       <para>
+       We maintain this information in ZooKeeper. Bookies use ephemeral nodes 
to indicate their availability. Clients 
+       use znodes to track ledger creation and deletion and also to know the 
end of the ledger and the bookies that 
+       were used to store the ledger. Bookies also watch the ledger list so 
that they can cleanup ledgers that get deleted.
+       </para>
+       
+       </section>
+
+       <section id="bk_closingOut">
+    <title>Closing out ledgers</title>
+
+       <para>
+       The process of closing out the ledger and finding the last ledger is 
difficult due to the durability guarantees of BookKeeper:
+       </para>
+
+       <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para>
+       If an entry has been successfully recorded, it must be readable.
+    </para>
+    </listitem>
+    
+    <listitem>
+       <para>
+       If an entry is read once, it must always be available to be read. 
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       </itemizedlist>
+       
+       <para>
+       If the ledger was closed gracefully, ZooKeeper will have the last entry 
and everything will work well. But, if the 
+       BookKeeper client that was writing the ledger dies, there is some 
recovery that needs to take place.
+       </para>
+
+       <para>
+       The problematic entries are the ones at the end of the ledger. There 
can be entries in flight when a BookKeeper client 
+       dies. If the entry only gets to one bookie, the entry should not be 
readable since the entry will disappear if that bookie
+       fails. If the entry is only on one bookie, that doesn't mean that the 
entry has not been recorded successfully; the other
+       bookies that recorded the entry might have failed.
+       </para>
+       
+       <para>
+       The trick to making everything work is to have a correct idea of a last 
entry. We do it in roughly three steps:
+       </para>
+       <orderedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para>
+               Find the entry with the highest last recorded entry, 
<emphasis>LC</emphasis>;
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+       <para>
+               Find the highest consecutively recorded entry, 
<emphasis>LR</emphasis>;
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+       <para>
+               Make sure that all entries between <emphasis>LC</emphasis> and 
<emphasis>LR</emphasis> are on a quorum of bookies; 
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       </orderedlist>
+    </section>
+  </section>  
+</article>
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+
+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Simplified DocBook XML V1.0//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/simple/1.0/sdocbook.dtd";>
+<article id="bk_GettStartedGuide">
+  <title>BookKeeper Getting Started Guide</title>
+
+  <articleinfo>
+    <legalnotice>
+      <para>Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+      you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
+      obtain a copy of the License at <ulink
+      
url="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0";>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0</ulink>.</para>
+
+      <para>Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+      software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
+      BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+      implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions
+      and limitations under the License.</para>
+    </legalnotice>
+
+    <abstract>
+      <para>This guide contains detailed information about using BookKeeper
+      for logging. It discusses the basic operations BookKeeper supports, 
+      and how to create logs and perform basic read and write operations on 
these
+      logs.</para>
+    </abstract>
+  </articleinfo>
+  <section id="bk_GettingStarted">
+    <title>Programming with BookKeeper</title>
+    
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para><xref linkend="bk_instance" /></para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para><xref linkend="bk_createLedger" /></para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para><xref linkend="bk_writeLedger" /></para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para><xref linkend="bk_closeLedger" /></para>
+      </listitem>
+      
+         <listitem>
+        <para><xref linkend="bk_openLedger" /></para>
+      </listitem>
+      
+      <listitem>
+        <para><xref linkend="bk_readLedger" /></para>
+      </listitem>
+      
+      <listitem>
+        <para><xref linkend="bk_deleteLedger" /></para>
+      </listitem>
+      
+    </itemizedlist>
+    
+    <section id="bk_instance">
+    <title> Instantiating BookKeeper.</title>
+    <para>
+    The first step to use BookKeeper is to instantiate a BookKeeper object:
+    </para>
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+    org.apache.bookkeeper.BookKeeper
+    </computeroutput>
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    There are three BookKeeper constructors:
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public BookKeeper(String servers) 
+       throws KeeperException, IOException    
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>servers</computeroutput> is a comma-separated list of 
ZooKeeper servers.
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public BookKeeper(ZooKeeper zk) 
+       throws InterruptedException, KeeperException    
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>zk</computeroutput> is a ZooKeeper object. This 
constructor is useful when
+        the application also using ZooKeeper and wants to have a single 
instance of ZooKeeper.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public BookKeeper(ZooKeeper zk, ClientSocketChannelFactory 
channelFactory) 
+       throws InterruptedException, KeeperException    
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>zk</computeroutput> is a ZooKeeper object. This 
constructor is useful when
+        the application also using ZooKeeper and wants to have a single 
instance of ZooKeeper.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>channelFactory</computeroutput> is a netty channel 
object 
+        (<computeroutput>org.jboss.netty.channel.socket</computeroutput>).  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+
+        
+    </section>
+    
+    <section id="bk_createLedger">
+    <title> Creating a ledger. </title>
+    
+    <para> Before writing entries to BookKeeper, it is necessary to create a 
ledger. 
+    With the current BookKeeper API, it is possible to create a ledger both 
synchronously
+    or asynchronously. The following methods belong
+    to 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookkeeper.client.BookKeeper</computeroutput>.
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Synchronous call:</emphasis>
+       </para>
+       
+       <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+    public LedgerHandle createLedger(int ensSize, int qSize, DigestType type,  
byte passwd[])
+        throws KeeperException, InterruptedException, 
+        IOException, BKException
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+       <computeroutput>ensSize</computeroutput> is the number of bookies 
(ensemble size);
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    
+       <listitem> 
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>qSize</computeroutput> is the write quorum size;
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    
+       <listitem> 
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>type</computeroutput> is the type of digest used with 
entries: either MAC or CRC32.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>passwd</computeroutput> is a password that authorizes 
the client to write to the
+       ledger being created.
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    
+    <para>
+    All further operations on a ledger are invoked through the 
<computeroutput>LedgerHandle</computeroutput>
+    object returned.
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    As a convenience, we provide a 
<computeroutput>createLedger</computeroutput> with default parameters 
(3,2,VERIFIABLE), 
+    and the only two input parameters it requires are a digest type and a 
password.
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Asynchronous call:</emphasis>
+       </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+    public void asyncCreateLedger(int ensSize, 
+            int qSize, 
+            DigestType type,  
+            byte passwd[],
+            CreateCallback cb,
+            Object ctx
+            )
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+       
+    <para>
+       The parameters are the same of the synchronous version, with the
+       exception of <computeroutput>cb</computeroutput> and 
<computeroutput>ctx</computeroutput>. 
<computeroutput>CreateCallback</computeroutput>
+       is an interface in 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookkeeper.client.AsyncCallback</computeroutput>, and
+       a class implementing it has to implement a method called 
<computeroutput>createComplete</computeroutput>
+       that has the following signature: 
+    </para>
+
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>
+       void createComplete(int rc, LedgerHandle lh, Object ctx);
+       </computeroutput>    
+       </para>
+       
+       <para>
+       where:
+       </para>
+       <itemizedlist>
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>rc</computeroutput> is a return code (please 
refer to 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookeeper.client.BKException</computeroutput> for a 
list);
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+       
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>lh</computeroutput> is a 
<computeroutput>LedgerHandle</computeroutput> object to manipulate a ledger;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>ctx</computeroutput> is a control object for 
accountability purposes. It can be essentially any object the application is 
happy with.
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+       </itemizedlist> 
+       
+       <para>
+       The <computeroutput>ctx</computeroutput> object passed as a parameter 
to the call to create a ledger
+       is the one same returned in the callback.
+    </para>
+    </section>
+    
+    <section id="bk_writeLedger">
+    <title> Adding entries to a ledger. </title>
+    <para>
+    Once we have a ledger handle <computeroutput>lh</computeroutput> obtained 
through a call to create a ledger, we
+    can start writing entries. As with creating ledgers, we can write both 
synchronously and 
+    asynchronously. The following methods belong
+    to 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookkeeper.client.LedgerHandle</computeroutput>.
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Synchronous call:</emphasis>
+       </para>
+       
+       <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public long addEntry(byte[] data)
+       throws InterruptedException
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+    
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+       <computeroutput>data</computeroutput> is a byte array;
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    
+    <para>
+       A call to <computeroutput>addEntry</computeroutput> returns the status 
of the operation (please refer to 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookeeper.client.BKDefs</computeroutput> for a list);
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Asynchronous call:</emphasis>
+       </para>
+
+       <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public void asyncAddEntry(byte[] data, AddCallback cb, Object ctx)
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+       
+    <para>
+    It also takes a byte array as the sequence of bytes to be stored as an 
entry. Additionaly, it takes
+    a callback object <computeroutput>cb</computeroutput> and a control object 
<computeroutput>ctx</computeroutput>. The callback object must implement
+    the <computeroutput>AddCallback</computeroutput> interface in 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookkeeper.client.AsyncCallback</computeroutput>, and
+       a class implementing it has to implement a method called 
<computeroutput>addComplete</computeroutput>
+       that has the following signature: 
+    </para>
+
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>
+       void addComplete(int rc, LedgerHandle lh, long entryId, Object ctx);
+       </computeroutput>    
+       </para>
+       
+       <para>
+       where:
+       </para>
+       <itemizedlist>
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>rc</computeroutput> is a return code (please 
refer to <computeroutput>org.apache.bookeeper.client.BKDefs</computeroutput> 
for a list);
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+       
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>lh</computeroutput> is a 
<computeroutput>LedgerHandle</computeroutput> object to manipulate a ledger;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>entryId</computeroutput> is the identifier of 
entry associated with this request;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>ctx</computeroutput> is control object used for 
accountability purposes. It can be any object the application is happy with.
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+       </itemizedlist>  
+    </section>
+    
+    <section id="bk_closeLedger">
+    <title> Closing a ledger. </title>
+    <para>
+    Once a client is done writing, it closes the ledger. The following methods 
belong
+    to 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookkeeper.client.LedgerHandle</computeroutput>.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Synchronous close:</emphasis>
+       </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public void close() 
+    throws InterruptedException
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    It takes no input parameters.
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Asynchronous close:</emphasis>
+       </para>
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public void asyncClose(CloseCallback cb, Object ctx)
+    throws InterruptedException
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+       
+    <para>
+    It takes a callback object <computeroutput>cb</computeroutput> and a 
control object <computeroutput>ctx</computeroutput>. The callback object must 
implement
+    the <computeroutput>CloseCallback</computeroutput> interface in 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookkeeper.client.AsyncCallback</computeroutput>, and
+       a class implementing it has to implement a method called 
<computeroutput>closeComplete</computeroutput>
+       that has the following signature: 
+    </para>
+
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>
+       void closeComplete(int rc, LedgerHandle lh, Object ctx)
+       </computeroutput>    
+       </para>
+       
+       <para>
+       where:
+       </para>
+       <itemizedlist>
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>rc</computeroutput> is a return code (please 
refer to <computeroutput>org.apache.bookeeper.client.BKDefs</computeroutput> 
for a list);
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+       
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>lh</computeroutput> is a 
<computeroutput>LedgerHandle</computeroutput> object to manipulate a ledger;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>ctx</computeroutput> is control object used for 
accountability purposes. 
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+       </itemizedlist> 
+    
+    </section>
+    
+    <section id="bk_openLedger">
+    <title> Opening a ledger. </title>
+    <para>
+    To read from a ledger, a client must open it first. The following methods 
belong
+    to 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookkeeper.client.BookKeeper</computeroutput>.
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Synchronous open:</emphasis>
+       </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public LedgerHandle openLedger(long lId, DigestType type, byte passwd[])
+    throws InterruptedException, BKException
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+       <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>ledgerId</computeroutput> is the ledger identifier;
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem> 
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>type</computeroutput> is the type of digest used with 
entries: either MAC or CRC32.  
+    </para>
+    </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>passwd</computeroutput> is a password to access the 
ledger (used only in the case of <computeroutput>VERIFIABLE</computeroutput> 
ledgers);
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       </itemizedlist>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Asynchronous open:</emphasis>
+       </para>
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public void asyncOpenLedger(long lId, DigestType type, byte passwd[], 
OpenCallback cb, Object ctx)
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+       
+    <para>
+    It also takes a a ledger identifier and a password. Additionaly, it takes 
a callback object 
+    <computeroutput>cb</computeroutput> and a control object 
<computeroutput>ctx</computeroutput>. The callback object must implement
+    the <computeroutput>OpenCallback</computeroutput> interface in 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookkeeper.client.AsyncCallback</computeroutput>, and
+       a class implementing it has to implement a method called 
<computeroutput>openComplete</computeroutput>
+       that has the following signature: 
+    </para>
+
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>
+       public void openComplete(int rc, LedgerHandle lh, Object ctx)
+       </computeroutput>    
+       </para>
+       
+       <para>
+       where:
+       </para>
+       <itemizedlist>
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>rc</computeroutput> is a return code (please 
refer to <computeroutput>org.apache.bookeeper.client.BKDefs</computeroutput> 
for a list);
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+       
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>lh</computeroutput> is a 
<computeroutput>LedgerHandle</computeroutput> object to manipulate a ledger;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>ctx</computeroutput> is control object used for 
accountability purposes. 
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+       </itemizedlist> 
+    </section>
+    
+    <section id="bk_readLedger">
+    <title> Reading from ledger </title>
+    <para>
+    Read calls may request one or more consecutive entries. The following 
methods belong
+    to 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookkeeper.client.LedgerHandle</computeroutput>.
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Synchronous read:</emphasis>
+       </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public Enumeration&lt;LedgerEntry&gt; readEntries(long firstEntry, long 
lastEntry) 
+    throws InterruptedException, BKException
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+       <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>firstEntry</computeroutput> is the identifier of the 
first entry in the sequence of entries to read;
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>lastEntry</computeroutput> is the identifier of the 
last entry in the sequence of entries to read.
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       </itemizedlist>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Asynchronous read:</emphasis>
+       </para>
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public void asyncReadEntries(long firstEntry, 
+            long lastEntry, ReadCallback cb, Object ctx)
+    throws BKException, InterruptedException
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+       
+    <para>
+    It also takes a first and a last entry identifiers. Additionaly, it takes 
a callback object 
+    <computeroutput>cb</computeroutput> and a control object 
<computeroutput>ctx</computeroutput>. The callback object must implement
+    the <computeroutput>ReadCallback</computeroutput> interface in 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookkeeper.client.AsyncCallback</computeroutput>, and
+       a class implementing it has to implement a method called 
<computeroutput>readComplete</computeroutput>
+       that has the following signature: 
+    </para>
+
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>
+       void readComplete(int rc, LedgerHandle lh, 
Enumeration&lt;LedgerEntry&gt; seq, Object ctx)
+       </computeroutput>    
+       </para>
+       
+       <para>
+       where:
+       </para>
+       <itemizedlist>
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>rc</computeroutput> is a return code (please 
refer to <computeroutput>org.apache.bookeeper.client.BKDefs</computeroutput> 
for a list);
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+       
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>lh</computeroutput> is a 
<computeroutput>LedgerHandle</computeroutput> object to manipulate a ledger;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>seq</computeroutput> is a 
<computeroutput>Enumeration&lt;LedgerEntry&gt; </computeroutput> object to 
containing the list of entries requested;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>ctx</computeroutput> is control object used for 
accountability purposes. 
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+       </itemizedlist> 
+    </section>
+
+    <section id="bk_deleteLedger">
+    <title> Deleting a ledger </title>
+    <para>
+    Once a client is done with a ledger and is sure that nobody will ever need 
to read from it again, they can delete the ledger.
+    The following methods belong to 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookkeeper.client.BookKeeper</computeroutput>.
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Synchronous delete:</emphasis>
+       </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+        public void deleteLedger(long lId) throws InterruptedException, 
BKException
+    </computeroutput>
+    </para>
+
+       <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>lId</computeroutput> is the ledger identifier;
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       </itemizedlist>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Asynchronous delete:</emphasis>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      <computeroutput>
+        public void asyncDeleteLedger(long lId, DeleteCallback cb, Object ctx) 
+      </computeroutput>
+    </para>
+       
+    <para>
+    It takes a ledger identifier. Additionally, it takes a callback object 
+    <computeroutput>cb</computeroutput> and a control object 
<computeroutput>ctx</computeroutput>. The callback object must implement
+    the <computeroutput>DeleteCallback</computeroutput> interface in 
<computeroutput>org.apache.bookkeeper.client.AsyncCallback</computeroutput>, and
+       a class implementing it has to implement a method called 
<computeroutput>deleteComplete</computeroutput>
+       that has the following signature: 
+    </para>
+
+       <para>
+       <computeroutput>
+       void deleteComplete(int rc, Object ctx)
+       </computeroutput>    
+       </para>
+       
+       <para>
+       where:
+       </para>
+       <itemizedlist>
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>rc</computeroutput> is a return code (please 
refer to <computeroutput>org.apache.bookeeper.client.BKDefs</computeroutput> 
for a list);
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+       
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               <computeroutput>ctx</computeroutput> is control object used for 
accountability purposes. 
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+       </itemizedlist> 
+    </section>
+   </section>
+</article>
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+
+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Simplified DocBook XML V1.0//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/simple/1.0/sdocbook.dtd";>
+<article id="bk_GettStartedGuide">
+  <title>BookKeeper Getting Started Guide</title>
+
+  <articleinfo>
+    <legalnotice>
+      <para>Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+      you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
+      obtain a copy of the License at <ulink
+      
url="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0";>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0</ulink>.</para>
+
+      <para>Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+      software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
+      BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+      implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions
+      and limitations under the License.</para>
+    </legalnotice>
+
+    <abstract>
+      <para>This guide contains detailed information about using BookKeeper
+      for logging. It discusses the basic operations BookKeeper supports, 
+      and how to create logs and perform basic read and write operations on 
these
+      logs.</para>
+    </abstract>
+  </articleinfo>
+  <section id="bk_GettingStarted">
+    <title>Getting Started: Setting up BookKeeper to write logs.</title>
+
+    <para>This document contains information to get you started quickly with
+    BookKeeper. It is aimed primarily at developers willing to try it out, and
+    contains simple installation instructions for a simple BookKeeper 
installation
+    and a simple programming example. For further programming detail, please 
refer to 
+    <ulink url="bookkeeperProgrammer.html">BookKeeper Programmer's 
Guide</ulink>.
+    </para>
+  
+         <section id="bk_Prerequisites">
+         <title>Pre-requisites</title>
+             <para>See <ulink url="bookkeeperConfig.html#bk_sysReq">
+             System Requirements</ulink> in the Admin guide.</para>
+           </section>
+
+         <section id="bk_Download">
+       <title>Download</title>
+               <para> BookKeeper is distributed along with ZooKeeper. To get a 
ZooKeeper distribution, 
+                          download a recent
+           <ulink url="http://zookeeper.apache.org/releases.html";>
+                 stable</ulink> release from one of the Apache Download
+                Mirrors.</para>
+         </section>
+         
+         <section id="bk_localBK">
+       <title>LocalBookKeeper</title>
+               <para> Under org.apache.bookkeeper.util, you'll find a java 
program
+               called LocalBookKeeper.java that sets you up to run BookKeeper 
on a 
+               single machine. This is far from ideal from a performance 
perspective,
+               but the program is useful for both test and educational 
purposes.
+               </para>
+         </section>
+         
+         <section id="bk_setupBookies">
+       <title>Setting up bookies</title>
+               <para> If you're bold and you want more than just running 
things locally, then
+               you'll need to run bookies in different servers. You'll need at 
least three bookies
+               to start with.  
+               </para>
+               
+               <para>
+               For each bookie, we need to execute a command like the 
following:
+               </para>
+               
+               <para><computeroutput>
+               java -cp 
.:./zookeeper-&lt;version&gt;-bookkeeper.jar:./zookeeper-&lt;version&gt;.jar\
+               
:lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar:lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar:lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar 
-Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.properties\ 
+               org.apache.bookkeeper.proto.BookieServer 3181 127.0.0.1:2181 
/path_to_log_device/\
+               /path_to_ledger_device/
+               </computeroutput></para>
+               
+               <para> "/path_to_log_device/" and "/path_to_ledger_device/" are 
different paths. Also, port 3181
+               is the port that a bookie listens on for connection requests 
from clients. 127.0.0.1:2181 is the hostname:port 
+               for the ZooKeeper server. In this example, the standalone 
ZooKeeper server is running locally on port 2181.
+               If we had multiple ZooKeeper servers, this parameter would be a 
comma separated list of all the hostname:port
+               values corresponding to them.
+               </para>
+         </section>
+         
+         <section id="bk_setupZK">
+               <title>Setting up ZooKeeper</title>
+               <para> ZooKeeper stores metadata on behalf of BookKeeper 
clients and bookies. To get a minimal 
+               ZooKeeper installation to work with BookKeeper, we can set up 
one server running in
+               standalone mode. Once we have the server running, we need to 
create a few znodes:
+               </para>
+               
+               <orderedlist>
+               <listitem>
+               <para><computeroutput>
+               /ledgers        
+               </computeroutput></para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para><computeroutput>
+               /ledgers/available
+               </computeroutput></para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para> For each bookie, we add one znode such that the name of 
the znode is the
+               concatenation of the machine name and the port number that the 
bookie is 
+               listening on. For example, if a bookie is running on 
bookie.foo.com an is listening 
+               on port 3181, we add a znode 
+               
<computeroutput>/ledgers/available/bookie.foo.com:3181</computeroutput>.  
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               </orderedlist>
+         </section>
+         
+         <section id="bk_example">
+           <title>Example</title>
+           <para>
+           In the following excerpt of code, we:
+           </para>
+           
+           <orderedlist>
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               Create a ledger;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               Write to the ledger;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               Close the ledger;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               Open the same ledger for reading;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               Read from the ledger;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+               
+               <listitem>
+               <para>
+               Close the ledger again;
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+           </orderedlist>
+           
+           <programlisting>
+LedgerHandle lh = bkc.createLedger(ledgerPassword);
+ledgerId = lh.getId();
+ByteBuffer entry = ByteBuffer.allocate(4);
+
+for(int i = 0; i &lt; 10; i++){
+       entry.putInt(i);
+       entry.position(0);
+       entries.add(entry.array());                             
+       lh.addEntry(entry.array());
+}
+lh.close();
+lh = bkc.openLedger(ledgerId, ledgerPassword);         
+                       
+Enumeration&lt;LedgerEntry&gt; ls = lh.readEntries(0, 9);
+int i = 0;
+while(ls.hasMoreElements()){
+       ByteBuffer origbb = ByteBuffer.wrap(
+                               entries.get(i++));
+       Integer origEntry = origbb.getInt();
+       ByteBuffer result = ByteBuffer.wrap(
+                               ls.nextElement().getEntry());
+
+       Integer retrEntry = result.getInt();
+}
+lh.close();
+           </programlisting>
+         </section>  
+  </section>
+</article>

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+
+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Simplified DocBook XML V1.0//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/simple/1.0/sdocbook.dtd";>
+<article id="bk_Stream">
+  <title>Streaming with BookKeeper</title>
+
+  <articleinfo>
+    <legalnotice>
+      <para>Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+      you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
+      obtain a copy of the License at <ulink
+      
url="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0";>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0</ulink>.</para>
+
+      <para>Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+      software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
+      BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+      implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions
+      and limitations under the License.</para>
+    </legalnotice>
+
+    <abstract>
+      <para>This guide contains detailed information about using how to stream 
bytes
+      on top of BookKeeper. It essentially motivates and discusses the basic 
stream 
+      operations currently supported.</para>
+    </abstract>
+  </articleinfo>
+       <section id="bk_StreamSummary">
+    <title>Summary</title>
+    
+    <para>
+    When using the BookKeeper API, an application has to split the data to 
write into entries, each
+    entry being a byte array. This is natural for many applications. For 
example, when using BookKeeper
+    for write-ahead logging, an application typically wants to write the 
modifications corresponding
+    to a command or a transaction. Some other applications, however, might not 
have a natural boundary
+    for entries, and may prefer to write and read streams of bytes. This is 
exactly the purpose of the
+    stream API we have implemented on top of BookKeeper.
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    The stream API is implemented in the package 
<computeroutput>Streaming</computeroutput>, and it contains two main classes: 
<computeroutput>LedgerOutputStream</computeroutput> and 
+    <computeroutput>LedgerInputStream</computeroutput>. The class names are 
indicative of what they do.
+    </para>
+    </section>
+    
+    <section id="bk_LedgerOutputStream">
+    <title>Writing a stream of bytes</title>
+    <para>
+    Class <computeroutput>LedgerOutputStream</computeroutput> implements two 
constructors and five public methods:
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public LedgerOutputStream(LedgerHandle lh) 
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>lh</computeroutput> is a ledger handle for a 
previously created and open ledger.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public LedgerOutputStream(LedgerHandle lh, int size) 
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>lh</computeroutput> is a ledger handle for a 
previously created and open ledger.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>size</computeroutput> is the size of the byte buffer 
to store written bytes before flushing.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Closing a stream.</emphasis> This call closes the 
stream by flushing the write buffer.
+       </para>
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public void close() 
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    which has no parameters.
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Flushing a stream.</emphasis> This call 
essentially flushes the write buffer.
+       </para>
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public synchronized void flush() 
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    which has no parameters.
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Writing bytes.</emphasis> There are three calls 
for writing bytes to a stream.
+       </para>
+       
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public synchronized void write(byte[] b) 
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>b</computeroutput> is an array of bytes to write.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public synchronized void write(byte[] b, int off, int len) 
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>b</computeroutput> is an array of bytes to write.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>off</computeroutput> is a buffer offset.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>len</computeroutput> is the length to write.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    
+        <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public synchronized void write(int b) 
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>b</computeroutput> contains a byte to write. The 
method writes the least significant byte of the integer four bytes.    
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    </section>
+    
+    <section id="bk_LedgerInputStream">
+    <title>Reading a stream of bytes</title>
+    
+    <para>
+    Class <computeroutput>LedgerOutputStream</computeroutput> implements two 
constructors and four public methods:
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public LedgerInputStream(LedgerHandle lh)
+       throws BKException, InterruptedException 
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>lh</computeroutput> is a ledger handle for a 
previously created and open ledger.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>    
+    
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public LedgerInputStream(LedgerHandle lh, int size) 
+    throws BKException, InterruptedException
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>lh</computeroutput> is a ledger handle for a 
previously created and open ledger.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>size</computeroutput> is the size of the byte buffer 
to store bytes that the application
+        will eventually read.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Closing.</emphasis> There is one call to close an 
input stream, but the call
+       is currently empty and the application is responsible for closing the 
ledger handle. 
+       </para>
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public void close()
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    which has no parameters.
+    </para>
+   
+    <para>
+       <emphasis role="bold">Reading.</emphasis> There are three calls to read 
from the stream.
+       </para>
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public synchronized int read()
+       throws IOException 
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    which has no parameters.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public synchronized int read(byte[] b)
+       throws IOException 
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>b</computeroutput> is a byte array to write to.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    
+
+    <para>
+    <computeroutput>
+       public synchronized int read(byte[] b, int off, int len)
+       throws IOException 
+    </computeroutput>
+       </para>
+
+    <para>
+    where:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>b</computeroutput> is a byte array to write to.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>off</computeroutput> is an offset for byte array 
<computeroutput>b</computeroutput>.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+       <para> 
+        <computeroutput>len</computeroutput> is the length in bytes to write 
to <computeroutput>b</computeroutput>.  
+       </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+    
+    </section>
+  </article>
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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+
+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V2.0//EN" 
"http://forrest.apache.org/dtd/document-v20.dtd";>
+
+<document>
+  
+  <header>
+    <title>ZooKeeper: Because Coordinating Distributed Systems is a Zoo</title>
+  </header>
+  
+  <body>
+    <p>ZooKeeper is a high-performance coordination service for
+      distributed applications.  It exposes common services - such as
+      naming, configuration management, synchronization, and group
+      services - in a simple interface so you don't have to write them
+      from scratch.  You can use it off-the-shelf to implement
+      consensus, group management, leader election, and presence
+      protocols. And you can build on it for your own, specific needs.
+    </p>
+
+    <p>
+      The following documents describe concepts and procedures to get
+      you started using ZooKeeper. If you have more questions, please
+      ask the <a href="ext:lists">mailing list</a> or browse the
+      archives.
+    </p>
+    <ul>
+
+      <li><strong>ZooKeeper Overview</strong><p>Technical Overview Documents 
for Client Developers, Adminstrators, and Contributors</p>
+      <ul><li><a href="zookeeperOver.html">Overview</a> - a bird's eye view of 
ZooKeeper, including design concepts and architecture</li>
+      <li><a href="zookeeperStarted.html">Getting Started</a> - a 
tutorial-style guide for developers to install, run, and program to 
ZooKeeper</li>
+      <li><a href="ext:relnotes">Release Notes</a> - new developer and user 
facing features, improvements, and incompatibilities</li>
+      </ul>
+      </li>
+      
+      <li><strong>Developers</strong><p> Documents for Developers using the 
ZooKeeper Client API</p>
+      <ul>
+            <li><a href="ext:api/index">API Docs</a> - the technical reference 
to ZooKeeper Client APIs</li>
+      <li><a href="zookeeperProgrammers.html">Programmer's Guide</a> - a 
client application developer's guide to ZooKeeper</li>
+      <li><a href="javaExample.html">ZooKeeper Java Example</a> - a simple 
Zookeeper client appplication, written in Java</li>
+      <li><a href="zookeeperTutorial.html">Barrier and Queue Tutorial</a> - 
sample implementations of barriers and queues</li>  
+      <li><a href="recipes.html">ZooKeeper Recipes</a> - higher level 
solutions to common problems in distributed applications</li>
+      </ul>
+      </li>
+      
+      <li><strong>Administrators &amp; Operators</strong> <p> Documents for 
Administrators and Operations Engineers of ZooKeeper Deployments</p>
+      <ul>
+      <li><a href="zookeeperAdmin.html">Administrator's Guide</a> - a guide 
for system administrators and anyone else who might deploy ZooKeeper</li>
+      <li><a href="zookeeperQuotas.html">Quota Guide</a> - a guide for system 
administrators on Quotas in ZooKeeper. </li>
+      <li><a href="zookeeperJMX.html">JMX</a> - how to enable JMX in 
ZooKeeper</li>
+      <li><a href="zookeeperHierarchicalQuorums.html">Hierarchical 
quorums</a></li>
+      <li><a href="zookeeperObservers.html">Observers</a> - non-voting 
ensemble members that easily improve ZooKeeper's scalability</li>
+      </ul>
+      </li>
+      
+      <li><strong>Contributors</strong><p> Documents for Developers 
Contributing to the ZooKeeper Open Source Project</p>
+      <ul>
+      <li><a href="zookeeperInternals.html">ZooKeeper Internals</a> - assorted 
topics on the inner workings of ZooKeeper</li>
+      </ul>
+      </li>
+      
+      <li><strong>Miscellaneous ZooKeeper Documentation</strong>
+      <ul>
+      <li><a href="ext:wiki">Wiki</a></li>
+      <li><a href="ext:faq">FAQ</a></li>    
+      </ul>
+      </li>
+
+         <li><strong>BookKeeper Documentation</strong>
+         <p> BookKeeper is a highly-available system that implements 
high-performance write-ahead logging. It uses ZooKeeper for metadata, 
+         which is the main reason for being a ZooKeeper contrib.
+         </p>
+      <ul>
+      <li><a href="bookkeeperOverview.html">henn, what's it again?</a></li>
+         <li><a href="bookkeeperStarted.html">Ok, now how do I try it 
out</a></li>
+         <li><a href="bookkeeperProgrammer.html">Awesome, but how do I 
integrate it with my app?</a></li>
+      <li><a href="bookkeeperStream.html">Can I stream bytes instead of 
entries?</a></li>
+      </ul>
+      </li>
+    </ul>
+  </body>
+  
+</document>

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