Cactus Code Thorn SAGA Author(s) : Frank Löffler Maintainer(s): Cactus team Licence : Saga: Boost Software License 1.0, Cactus packaging: LGPL -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Purpose Distribute the Saga library; see . From the web site: SAGA is an API that provides the basic functionality required to build distributed applications, tools and frameworks so as to be independent of the details of the underlying infrastructure. SAGA can be used to provide simple access layers for distributed systems and abstractions for applications and thereby address the fundamental application design objectives of Interoperability across different infrastructure, Distributed Scale-Out, Extensibility, Adaptivity whilst preserving simplicity.