jclouds

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Adrian Cole bdd739ad04 Issue 826:support api-generated location metadata across service types, note this ensures authenticationexceptions propagate even after context creation		2012-02-03 00:27:29 -08:00
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src	Issue 826:support api-generated location metadata across service types, note this ensures authenticationexceptions propagate even after context creation	2012-02-03 00:27:29 -08:00
README.txt	Issue 663:Update license headers to jclouds, Inc. and setup NOTICE file	2011-08-16 18:14:30 -07:00
pom.xml	updated current version to 1.4.0-SNAPSHOT	2012-01-16 13:08:32 -08:00

README.txt

====
    Licensed to jclouds, Inc. (jclouds) under one or more
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    "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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this is a skeleton for a standalone compute provider.

Essentially, a standalone provider is one that doesn't use jclouds http services.  Examples could be native drivers like libvirt or shell-driven ones like virtualbox.