The NetServe server is easily extensible through plugins (called services later in this document). The services are running in a lightweight container which manages the following basic functions.

• Threading
• Request queuing
• Configuration managment
• Exception handling
• Monitoring
• Logging

Developers of a service can focus to their business logic.

To run NetServe you need at least a running Java 1.4.2 installation or higher.

1. Download the latest NetServe release from SourceForge
2. Unzip the downloaded file to the desired location
3. Copy the example configuration from NetServe/etc/sample to NetServe/etc
4. Now you can start NetServe with ./netserve.sh start from Unix or if you are working on Windows with netserve.bat

• User documentation
• Developer documentation
• NetServe Javadoc