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diff --git a/modules/CIAO/docs/index.html b/modules/CIAO/docs/index.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..438bdf3416e --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/CIAO/docs/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,169 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<!-- $Id$ --> + <title>CIAO - Component-Integrated ACE ORB</title> +</head> +<body> +<h1>CIAO - Component-Integrated ACE ORB</h1> +<h2>Introduction</h2> +CIAO is TAO's implementation of <a + href="http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/02-06-65"> CORBA Component +Model (CCM)</a> specially optimized for distributed real-time embedded +(DRE) systems. +This page contains links to other documents and resources for building +and using CIAO.<br> +<br> +<hr> +<h2>The CIAO Project</h2> +<ul> + <li>The main <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/%7Eschmidt/CIAO.html"> +CIAO project page</a>.</li> + <li><a href="../CIAO-INSTALL.html">Installation instructions</a> for +CIAO<br> + </li> + <li>CIAO <a href="releasenotes/index.html">Status (aka. release +notes.)</a></li> + <li>CIAO <a href="cidlc.html">CIDL Compiler Options</a><br> + <li>CIAO <a href="EnvVars.html">Environment Variables</a> <br> + </li> + <li>CIAO <a href="Trace.html">Logging Facility</a><br> + </li> + <li>CIAO <a href="../NEWS">NEWS</a></li> +</ul> +<hr> +<ul> +</ul> +<ul> + <p><!-- + + <li>This <a href="new_components.html">page on implementing new + + component</a> explains all the user-defined and tool-generated + + files when implementing a component.<p> + + + + <li>The <a href="ConfigValues.html">Configuration Name/Value + + lists</a> lists all the configuration values that CIAO will pass + + into vaious CCM mechanisms. The information shown in this page + + is not visible to CIAO end-users, which include modeling tool + + developers. The information that matters for most users is how + + these configurations are represented in various XML + + descriptors and CIDL specifications.<p> + +--> + </p> +</ul> +<h2>CCM-defined Interface Diagrams</h2> +Here is a set of UML diagrams that we use to figure out the +relationship among all the different interfaces in CCM. You can +browse the related part from the following list: +<ul> + <li><a href="imgs/component-basic.png"> Basic component interfaces </a></li> + <li><a href="imgs/home-config.png"> Home and configuration interfaces + </a></li> + <li><a href="imgs/basic-container.png"> Basic container interfaces </a></li> + <li><a href="imgs/extended-container.png"> Extended container +interfaces </a></li> + <li><a href="imgs/DAnCE-Dynamic.png"> Deployment and configuration +(DAnCE) interfaces </a></li> +</ul> +All these diagrams are generated from the <a href="imgs/CCM.vsd">CCM.vsd +Visio file</a> (The same file in Visio V.5 format is <a + href="imgs/CCM-v5.vsd">here</a>.) and OpenOffice source file + <a href="imgs/DAnCE-Dynamic.sxd">DAnCE-Dynamic.sxd</a> <br> +<br> +<hr> +<h2>CIAO's D&C Framework (<a href="http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/Doxygen/Current/html/tao/ciao/dance/index.html">DAnCE</a>) part-by-part</h2> +DAnCE's implementation is based on the OMG's Deployment and Configuration +Specification version [ptc/2003-07-08]. Here is a list of the major +actors of CIAO runtime that a user should be aware of. +<ul> + <li><strong>NodeManager:</strong> +A daemon process responsible for managing NodeApplications that reside +in the same physical node.</li> + <p> </p> + <li><strong>NodeApplicationManager:</strong> +A infrastructure component responsible for deploying +locality-constrained applications onto a node. A NodeApplicationManager +is usually created by NodeManager.<br> + </li> + <p> </p> + <li><strong>NodeApplication:</strong> +A component server instance spawned by NodeApplicationManager. <br> + </li> + <p> </p> + <li><strong>ExecutionManager:</strong> +Infrastructure component responsible for executing an component-based +DRE application based on the information from DeploymentPlan.</li> + <p> </p> + <li><strong>DomainApplicationManager</strong>: +Domain-oriented auxiliary component created and used by +ExecutionManager to deploy the component-based DRE application at the +domain level. <br> + <br> + </li> + <li><strong>PlanLauncher</strong></strong>: +Executor component responsible for parsing the XML-based +deploymentplan and passing the plan to ExecutionManager for execution.<br> + <br> +To understand the runtime inter-relationships of various CIAO actors, +you may click <a href="imgs/DAnCE-Dynamic.png">here</a> to see a +sequence diagram that gives you a clear representation of what's +happening when you start a DAnCE-based DRE application. Special thanks +to <a href="mailto:Friedhelm.wolf@gmx.de">Friedhelm Wolf</a> who +initiated and contributed most part of this +diagram.<br> + <br> + </li> +</ul> +<hr> +<h2>CIAO CCM tutorials</h2> +There are several tutorials to help you understand CIAO and CCM: +<ul> + <li> <a + href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/%7Eschmidt/OMG-CCM-Tutorial.ppt">Tutorial +on the CORBA Component Model (CCM)</a>. This tutorial presents an +overview of the CORBA Component Model (CCM), +describing its key features and illustrating how to write CCM +applications in C++. + <p> </p> + </li> + <li><a href="../examples/Hello"><code>$(CIAO_ROOT)/DAnCE/examples/Hello.</code></a> +This example illustrates how to build and deploy a CIAO based +application <a href="../examples/Hello/step-by-step.html">step-by-step</a>. +There is +also a detailed documentation explaining this example avalable in both <a + href="http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/%7Edengg/CCM/CCM_Hello_example.pdf">PDF</a> +and <a + href="http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/%7Edengg/CCM/CCM_Hello_example.ppt"> +PowerPoint</a> format.<br> + <br> + </li> + <li><a href="./tutorials/Quoter/Simple">$(CIAO_ROOT)/docs/tutorials/Quoter/Simple</a>. +This example illustrates the implementation of the "famous" Quoter +example in the CIAO world. Please refer to <a + href="tutorials/Quoter/Simple/README.html">README</a> for more +information. </li> <P> + +<li><a +href="./tutorials/CoSMIC/">$(CIAO_ROOT)/docs/tutorials/COSMIC/</a>. +This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to use CoSMIC to +generate deployment descriptors requied by the above <a +href="./tutorials/Quoter/Simple">Quoter</a> example </li> + +</ul> +<!--#include virtual="/~nanbor/signature.html" --><!-- <hr> --><!-- <\!-- hhmts start -\-> --><!-- Last modified: Mon Nov 04 07:55:22 Central Standard Time 2002 --><!-- <\!-- hhmts end -\-> --> +<!-- <address>Nanbor Wang <nanbor@cs.wustl.edu></address> --><!-- LocalWords: CCM UML vsd Visio + + --> +</body> +</html> |