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Minutes of Meeting, 06/11/2000 @ 10:00 |
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Location: UKC Computer Science Meeting Room |
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Present: pjm2, tdb1 |
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One hour Late: ajm4 |
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Absent: ab11 |
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Absentee(s): Unable to attend due to illnes and bad meeting |
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planning by the group as a whole. |
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The way in which CORBA will be sending information around |
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the server system was discussed. |
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The filters will parse incoming XML sent via UDP and create |
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an XMLPacket object. These objects are used to convey each |
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host's information around the CORBA system. The object will |
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provide accessors to an array of parameter name/value pairs. |
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Strategies for configuration distribution were discussed. |
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The Logger class from last year's project is expected to |
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make a reappearance in this current project. The main |
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core of the server will have work put into it this week. |
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For the timebeing, we shall only be sending XML data that |
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*does not* contain nested values. |
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Things that must be done before next Monday: - |
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(oh yes, we're starting to implement bits...) |
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ab11: - |
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In this person's absence, it was decided that they may write |
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the test host application (in Java). This program shall |
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connect to a specified server and send arbitrary non-nested |
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XML data via UDP. |
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(As per the 1st XML example at minutes/minutes-20001101.txt) |
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ajm4 and tdb1: - |
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Define a method of configuration distribution and produce |
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the configurator. Adapt last year's Logger class as |
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appropriate. Both the configurator and the logger should be |
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registering themselves with the CORBA name service. It may |
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also be ncessary to write the CORE module of the server on |
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which the rest resides. IDL definitions required. |
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pjm2: - |
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Create the server's Filter class. This will accept incoming |
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UDP connections and parse the XML data received. Create a |
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separate XMLPacketMaker class to be used by Filter - this |
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will be used to create the XMLPacket object for each |
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incoming connection, providing a way of passing information |
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about the CORBA system. Complete as much of this as |
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possible before next Monday. |
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Meeting was concluded @ 13:00. Next meeting arranged for |
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Wednesday 8th November 14:00-17:00, directly after our |
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meeting with iau at 13:30 that day. |
