• Process Configuration and spawning:

• OsProcessStarter, OsPipelineStarter and OsPipelineChainStarter provider a rich api to configure how external programs are to run and be communicated with.

• Examples: @see <OsProcessStarter> class comments.

• Pipelining:

• DSL syntax that allows the user to configure pipelines for parallel processing.

• Examples: @see <OsPipelineStarter> class comments.

• Chaining:

• DSL syntax that allows the user to conditionally chain together processes and pipelines for conditional parallel processing.

• Examples: @see <OsPipelineChainStarter> class comments.

• Environment

• Process environment query and modifcation API

• Examples: @see <OsProcessEnvironment> class comments.

• Futures:

• Integrated with our powerful futures framework for async programming tasks.

• Examples: @see method comments from OsNativeProcess>>onCompletion, OsPipeline>>onCompletion, OsPipelineChain>>onCompletion.

• Interactive:

• Blocking/Non-blocking IO streams to facilitate interactive conversation between VAST and external programs.

• Tracing:

• Tracing information as processes are started to give additional insights and solve issues.

• Examples: @see <OsProcessStarter> class comments.

• Systems Programming

• Query all native processes in the system, control them, get information about them...

• Examples: @see <OsNativeProcess> and <OsProcessInfo> class comments.