Something newer to play with
16 September 2008Yes, I know … I keep bouncing around from one seemingly interesting thing to another. It’s the old ADD kicking in again. Old habits never die. But this looks really cool, so I just have to check it out:
Common Base Event model
The Log and Trace Analyzer maps the currently supported proprietary log formats into a common event model called Common Base Event. This allows the analyzer to use a common format for any log records from any supported proprietary log files. The parsers provided with the Log and Trace Analyzer map the log records from their current output format to this common model.An event, which is the occurrence of an situation, can take a variety of forms. These forms include business, autonomic, management, tracing and logging events. Events encapsulate message data and are therefore the foundation on which complex distributed systems operate. Data elements of these events need to be in a consistent format to enable correlation and to facilitate the effective intercommunication among disparate enterprise applications in such systems.
The Common Base Event model is the new standard for events among the different types of distributed applications. This standard proposes consistency of data elements that comprise these events, both in the elements themselves and in their format.
The Common Base Event definition ensures completeness of the data by providing properties to publish general information, which is collectively referred to as the 3-tuple, whenever a situation occurs.
The Common Base Event model is an attempt to provide a universal way to represent “events” in an application or system. I like that. It’s part of the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform Project, which I stumbled across while playing with Ganymede. TPTP is part of the Ganymede project, but it doesn’t come shipped with it installed right out of the box, so you have to a few things to pull it down:
Ganymede is the Eclipse simultaneous release in 2008. It includes TPTP 4.5.0 and all of its dependencies. The Ganymede update site provides an easy way to install TPTP and its dependencies. Step-by-Step illustration is also available on the TPTP wiki page.
- Install Eclipse SDK version 3.4
- From the menu, select Help > Software Updates.
- Select the “Available Software” tab in the “Software Updates and Add-ons” dialog box.
- Expand the “Ganymede” entry.
- Expand the “Testing and Performance” entry and choose the options to install. Equinox p2 will automatically install the required dependencies.
- Click Install, and follow the instructions to complete the installation. Restart Eclipse when prompted.
I’m in the process of doing that now, and when that’s done, I’m going to see if I can take it out for a spin …
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