Specification

An xbook server is an application-specific application factory web service [21] which serves one or more xbooks. It launches a xbook manager for each portal request it receives to handle the request. The xbook server will run in one of the following modes:

web service:

All processes run under the account of the user who is running the xbook server. This is the currently supported mode of the AFWS.

gatekeeper:

Application processes are run under the account associated with the proxy passed from portal.