Major change in the java package naming. This has been held off for some time now, but it really needed doing. The future packaging of all i-scream products will be; uk.org.iscream.<product>.<subpart>.* In the case of the central monitoring system server this will be; uk.org.iscream.cms.server.* The whole server has been changed to follow this structure, and tested to a smallish extent. Further changes in other parts of the CMS will follow.
The whole server package structure has been changed. Old Package: uk.ac.ukc.iscream.* New Package: uk.org.iscream.*
Given all the classes that extend Thread a name using Thread.setName(). It is only representative as far as it will tell us which class the Thread is, but this will go some way to aiding debugging. If time permitted, more effort could be taken to name each thread according to what it was dealing with.
General tidy up, specifically focussing on the verbosity of logging messages.
Some tidying up.
Changes to reflect move of Component, ComponentStartException, and the ReferenceManager from util to componentmanager.
A structural change to the Filter. The old setup looked like this; UDPReader ------> FilterThread (thread) --> (parent) TCPReader ------> FilterThread (thread) --> (parent) FilterServant --> FilterThread (thread) --> (parent) Seeing this from a threaded point of view, each time a packet came in (through whatever means - UDP, TCP or CORBA), a FilterThread instance was created to deal with it. If the link to the parent was slow this resulting in a build-up of FilterThreads all waiting to talk to the parent - and there is only one actual parent object, with a synchronised thread, so they have to queue up anyway. As a result of this, the following change has been made. UDPReader -------\ TCPReader ----------> Queue (single) >-- FilterThread --> (parent) FilterServant ---/ In this setup, each of the three objects that generate packets only see the single instance of a Queue. They all add their data to this Queue, and then carry on with the task of listening. The FilterThread (having it's role changed slightly) now acts as a consumer of the Queue, in that it grabs data from the Queue and deals with passing it on to the parent. This setup should be more efficient in the long run, especially under a high load situation. The only problem could be the Queue growing to an unlimited size, but this is a Queue design issue.
componenterized the filter and tidied all child classes, no all conform to toString standard
Changed package structure uk.ac.ukc.iscream.refman and xml -> uk.ac.ukc.iscream.util
Changed all classes so that references to the Logger and ConfigurationManager are no longer passed around between classes. All of the classes now utilise the new ReferenceManager, which makes life much easier. Also tidied everything so that they all use the same conventions for attributes, namely the _ prefix to the name.
Made changes to fit into the new package structure. Also made all classes, namely the UDPReader and FilterThread, conform to the Template class specification.
TCPReader - will perform heartbeat functions. This class only listens, it runs a TCPReaderInit thread to do the actual work.
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