[cosmic-users] CoSMIC-0.4.8 released

[nilabjar at dre.vanderbilt.edu]

Hi Folks,

We are pleased to announce the release of CoSMIC version 0.4.8.  Please
download CoSMIC from:

http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/CoSMIC/

Major improvements over CoSMIC-0.4.6, the previous release include:

O    Modeling of component behavior is supported using I/O Automata
language.It is based on the formalism of Input/Output automata. The
interpreter generates a workload characterization file which can be
further used to drive the workload emulators.

o    New command line option for the IDL importer: -r <path>. This option
takes the place of a list of IDL files, and causes the importer to process
all IDL files in <path> and its subdirectories.

o    IDL importer now automatically adds $TAO_ROOT, $TAO_ROOT/tao,
$CIAO_ROOT, and $CIAO_ROOT/ciao to its set of include paths.

o    A new paradigm sheet with ability to generate all available path
diagrams originating out of a chosen port within the given model. The
required port needs to be chosen and subsequently the interpreter needs to
be run which generates all the possible paths through which control can
flow in the run-time. Helps detecting possible faults in design and
architecture.

o    The CIDL interpreter now generates a one-to-one mapping of CIDL files
to IDL files specified in a project.

o    It also preserves factories declared in packages by using module
declarations.This prevents factories having the same declaration and
located in different packages from being overwritten.

o    Enhanced QoSPML (QoS Policy Modeling Language) and integrated it into
PICML. This language is available in the RTConfiguration model in PICML
and
allows developers to model RT-CCM entities such as thread-pools with lanes,
priority banded connections and priority propagation models as well as some
CIAO-specific configurations such as command line options and service
configuration filenames.

o    Added an interpreter which produces XML configuration code based on
the RTConfiguration models in PICML. The output is conformant to the XML
schema available at $CIAO_ROOT/docs/schema/CIAOServerResources.xsd

o    A new modeling language has been added to CoSMIC that provides high
level QoS modeling and meta-modeling.  This language is currently an alpha
implementation and its use is not currently recommended as it will undergo
substantial changes and improvement in forthcoming releases.

o    Added enhancements to the flat-plan interpreter to deploy multiple
instances of a component across multiple nodes.

o    Fixed a number of bugs in the flat-plan interpreter.



Many thanks to the people who reported bugs with the previous release of
CoSMIC and who beta tested the installer.  Please report any
bugs/suggestions to cosmic-users at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu.

Thanks,
Nilabja