Welcome to the Declarative Development Guide. This guide provides a complete set of resources for learning how to develop declarative services and applications on NetKernel.

• Technology Tour A breadth-first tour of the technology set provided with Netkernel with many interactive examples.
• Trailmaps Worked examples of real applications and services. Starting from first principles with a step by step guide to creating a "Hello World" example, the trailmaps build to more complex examples exploring some of the varied applications of NetKernel. You can follow along to build these yourself or install pre-built modules and inspect the source.
• XML Pipelines An exploration of the way NetKernel supports flexible robust asynchronous XML pipelines - presents a cross-section through a number of NetKernel technologies to illustrate XML pipeline solutions. (First presented at XML 2004)
• Practicalities Nitty gritty of setting up a development environment, creating a module and configuring NetKernel.
• Reference Library Literature providing rapid reference material for specific technologies and services.