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Autonomic add-on
IBM's promise to create self-managing systems took a new turn this week with the release of the The Autonomic Computing Toolkit. The kit is a free download aimed at supporters of the Eclipse project, an open-source initiative, sponsored by IBM, to develop and maintain a basic framework upon which application development environments can be built. The ACT is designed to supplement these environments by providing a standard way to build self-healing applications. Included in the download are embeddable components, tools, usage scenarios and documentation that IBM says will be supplemented and expanded over the next year.