Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of CorbaTrace

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        Could you please submit the project again with a URL to the current
distribution ? 

        Thanks in adance,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Juliot Etienne <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: lgpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: CorbaTrace
 > System name: corbatrace
 > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > CorbaTrace is a helpful tool for tracing communications beetween Corba 
 > objects.
 > Once CorbaTrace installed, remote call are intercepted and informations are 
 > store in XML files. So, you will be able to apply filter and get a XMI files 
 > to see, like an UML graph sequence, the communications beetween distant 
 > objects.
 > 
 > ***************************************************************
 > 
 > When you develop distributed software, it\'s very hard to find bugs and to 
 > understand where are troubles in your architecture. 
 > Corba is one of the best, complete and more use standardisation of 
 > middleware architecture. 
 > 
 > So we have done a tool that can trace communication easyly beetween objects 
 > and see the result with a graphic.
 > 
 > CorbaTrace is based on a newness of Corba 2.3 : portable interceptors. It 
 > allows to minimize the modification a code source of the application to 
 > install CorbaTrace.
 > The results of the interception are written in XMI, which is the OMG\'s 
 > format to store an UML graphics in XML. So, you can use any AGL that support 
 > XMI to see a graph sequence.
 > 
 > Corbatrace is not based on a property software but on OMG specifications. 
 > It\'s write in Java (but it may be rewritted in C++), and its license is 
 > LGPL (the free license of the Free Software Fondation).
 > 
 > *******************************************************
 > 
 > CorbaTrace was begun in september 2000, in the University of Nantes, for a 
 > project of two students in Master. They do a lot of search because portable 
 > interceptors was very new and just implemented. They based there work on 
 > Orbacus examples.
 > The project was continuous and improved by 5 students in DESS Genie 
 > Informatique of Nantes (sept. 2001 - today). All the architecture was 
 > changed and upgraded (XML and so).
 > The project was ignited by a faculty professor : Philippe Lamarre.
 > Thanks to him for all its advise. Thanks too to Mr Attiobe.
 > 
 > Today, CorbaTrace begin to work. There is a lot of test to do and all the 
 > XMI part must be done. But interceptions already work.

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