Glossary

A single place collecting the key terms used throughout the documentation.

Term	Description
Adaptive Application	A PARA application process running on top of the standard `ara::*` APIs.
Functional Cluster	A functional grouping at the level of an `ara::` namespace (e.g. `ara::com`) with its corresponding library (`libpara_*.so`).
Function Group (FG)	A set of processes that start and stop together, and the unit of state transition. `MachineFG` is the starting point of machine startup.
Manifest	JSON configuration declaring processes, machines, communication, and so on. Read by EM/CM at startup.
EM / CM	The Execution Management (EM) and Communication Management (CM) runtime daemons.
`state-dependencies`	Declares in the execution manifest "in which state of which FG this process should be started".
Proxy / Skeleton	The consumer-side (Proxy) and provider-side (Skeleton) code of service-oriented communication.
APID	DLT Application ID. The per-process log identifier (e.g. `EM`, `HW__`).
DLT	Diagnostic Log and Trace. PARA's logging backend.
SD (Service Discovery)	SOME/IP Service Discovery.
PPort	The Provided Port of a service interface.

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