[cosmic-users] CoSMIC 0.7.4.5 now available

[Sumant Tambe]

Hi folks,

The Component Synthesis using Model-Integrated Computing (CoSMIC)
release 0.7.4.5 is out and installers are available for download at

http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/cosmic/html/download.html

The CoSMIC tool suite consists of

o Platform-Independent Component Modeling Language (PICML), which is a
   Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) based paradigm for modeling CORBA
   Component Model (CCM) based applications, which use the latest
   Deployment and Configuration Specification (D&C) for configuration and
   deployment.

o Component QoS Modeling Language (CQML), which allows PICML-based
   models to capture the higher level QoS design intent and helps
   generate QoS configuration metadata from annotated models.

o DDS QoS Modeling Language (DQML), allows modeling of large number QoS
   policies provided by the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS).

o Language for Embedded Query and Traversal (LEESA), which is a
   domain-specific embedded language (DSEL) in C++ that provides a
   succinct and expressive notation for writing object structure (model)
   traversal.

The new features that are introduced in the latest version are
summarized below:

. Temporarily disabled the model intelligence feature that
   auto-generates the default artifacts when a new component is added to
   the model. This feature will be released in the next version
   of PICML/CoSMIC. Contact: James Hill <hillj at cs.iupui.edu>

. LEESA ships with a new Perl script called gen-pairs.pl that extends
   Udm generated header file with additional meta-information
   (IsDescendant and VisitorAsIndex) to speed up compilation.


Please let us know if you run into any problems.

Thanks,

Sumant.