diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/NCBootstrapImpl.java b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/NCBootstrapImpl.java
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-/*
- * Copyright 2009-2011 by The Regents of the University of California
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * you may obtain a copy of the License from
- * 
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- * 
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package edu.uci.ics.asterix.hyracks.bootstrap;
-
-import java.rmi.RemoteException;
-import java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject;
-import java.util.logging.Level;
-import java.util.logging.Logger;
-
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.common.context.AsterixAppRuntimeContext;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.metadata.MetadataManager;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.metadata.MetadataNode;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.metadata.api.IAsterixStateProxy;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.metadata.api.IMetadataNode;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.metadata.bootstrap.MetadataBootstrap;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.transaction.management.service.recovery.IRecoveryManager;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.transaction.management.service.recovery.IRecoveryManager.SystemState;
-import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.application.INCApplicationContext;
-import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.application.INCBootstrap;
-
-public class NCBootstrapImpl implements INCBootstrap {
-    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(NCBootstrapImpl.class.getName());
-
-    private INCApplicationContext ncApplicationContext = null;
-    private AsterixAppRuntimeContext runtimeContext;
-    private String nodeId;
-    private boolean isMetadataNode = false;
-
-    @Override
-    public void start() throws Exception {
-        nodeId = ncApplicationContext.getNodeId();
-        if (LOGGER.isLoggable(Level.INFO)) {
-            LOGGER.info("Starting Asterix node controller: " + nodeId);
-        }
-
-        runtimeContext = new AsterixAppRuntimeContext(ncApplicationContext);
-        runtimeContext.initialize();
-        ncApplicationContext.setApplicationObject(runtimeContext);
-
-        IAsterixStateProxy proxy = (IAsterixStateProxy) ncApplicationContext.getDistributedState();
-        isMetadataNode = nodeId.equals(proxy.getAsterixProperties().getMetadataNodeName());
-        if (isMetadataNode) {
-            registerRemoteMetadataNode(proxy);
-
-            if (LOGGER.isLoggable(Level.INFO)) {
-                LOGGER.info("Bootstrapping metadata");
-            }
-            MetadataManager.INSTANCE = new MetadataManager(proxy);
-            MetadataManager.INSTANCE.init();
-            MetadataBootstrap.startUniverse(proxy.getAsterixProperties(), ncApplicationContext);
-        }
-
-        //#. recover if the system is corrupted by checking system state.
-        IRecoveryManager recoveryMgr = runtimeContext.getTransactionSubsystem().getRecoveryManager();
-        if (!proxy.getAsterixProperties().isNewUniverse()) {
-            if (recoveryMgr.getSystemState() == SystemState.CORRUPTED) {
-                recoveryMgr.startRecovery(true);
-            }
-        }
-        recoveryMgr.checkpoint(true);
-
-        if (isMetadataNode) {
-            //#. clean-up incomplete DDL operations, which is DDLRecovery
-            MetadataBootstrap.startDDLRecovery();
-        }
-    }
-
-    public void registerRemoteMetadataNode(IAsterixStateProxy proxy) throws RemoteException {
-        IMetadataNode stub = null;
-        MetadataNode.INSTANCE.initialize(runtimeContext);
-        stub = (IMetadataNode) UnicastRemoteObject.exportObject(MetadataNode.INSTANCE, 0);
-        proxy.setMetadataNode(stub);
-
-        if (LOGGER.isLoggable(Level.INFO)) {
-            LOGGER.info("Metadata node bound");
-        }
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void stop() throws Exception {
-        if (LOGGER.isLoggable(Level.INFO)) {
-            LOGGER.info("Stopping Asterix node controller: " + nodeId);
-        }
-
-        if (isMetadataNode) {
-            MetadataBootstrap.stopUniverse();
-        }
-        runtimeContext.deinitialize();
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void setApplicationContext(INCApplicationContext appCtx) {
-        this.ncApplicationContext = appCtx;
-    }
-}
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