Greg McChesneyThesis Defense PresentationComputer Science, TTUgreg.mcchesney@ttu.edu

Service Context Management for Exertion-oriented Programming

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Overall Presentation Goal or Primary Purpose

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• Create a life-cycle for context management in Exertion-Oriented Programming

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Thesis Objectives

• As a result of this presentation, you will be able to:– Understand the purpose of service contexts– Understand why a life-cycle is required– Utilize the life-cycle for your SORCER projects– Create a context in SORCER– Modify a context in SORCER– Execute an exertion in SORCER– View a returned exertion context from the

federation

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Speaker’s Qualifications

• Greg McChesney is a graduate student at TTU

• Greg McChesney is planning to graduate in May of 2009 with a Master’s in Computer Science

• Completed a related project as a feasibility study in Communication Networks

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Did you know?

There is no network-centric methodology for creating service contexts in the SORCER environment.

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Presentation Agenda

• Background knowledge

• What is a service context?

• Discuss why a life-cycle is required

• Overview of life-cycle

• Discuss Context Creation Panel

• Feasibility Study

• Schedule

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Background Knowledge

• Many different Exertion-Oriented (EO) Systems

• Implementation based on SORCER– Developed by Texas Tech SORCER Lab– Based on Jini network technology– Framework constantly evolving– Interoperability with existing providers a concern

for new development

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All About Contexts

• A service context is a basic data structure in SOOA

• Used for communication between provider and requestor (a data exchange contract)

• A service context depends on the provider and the method being executed

• Data specification of hierarchical attributes the method will require

• Stored in a tree like format of path/value

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Sample Context

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Need for a Life-Cycle

• Two roles– Provider-some introduction– Request-some introduction

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Need for a Life-Cycle

• Two roles– Provider

• No methodology to obtain a service context from a provider

• No methodology to interactively create network centric contexts

• No method of updating or removing a context from a provider

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Need for a Life-Cycle

– Requestor• Exertion-oriented programming cannot be

network centric without context management• Two new service UIs - Context Browser in

Cataloger Service UI and in Exertion Editor will provide more accessibility

• Need service context editing operations for EO programming

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Proposed Life-Cycle

• Implement service context editing operations into provider classes– New operations will be remotely invokeable

• Get- Requestor• Save -Admin• Delete -Admin

• Create Context Browser to utilize the methods

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Life-Cycle Explained

• Context must be:– Stored locally by provider– Reloaded on provider restart– Saved on update/create– Return undefined service context on error

• Changes must be– Compliant with existing providers– Provide backup file in case of bad context

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Activity Diagram

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Different Components

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Need to Update

Use Case Diagram Context Browser

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Component Diagram Context Browser

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Context Browser UI Component Diagram

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Context Browser Sequence- Viewer

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Context Browser Sequence- Admin

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Context Browser-Class Diagram

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Need for a Exertion Editor

• No network-centric method for creating context for exertions

• No network-centric method for reusing a context for exertions

• No common interactive method of creating exertions with context directly from providers in SORCER– Each provider must have own GUI interface– Users must learn each providers interface

• Provide easier network-centric development of new services

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Edit the Context?

• Why would we want to edit a service context before we launch the exertion?– The service context can often describe input

variables that are not static, editing it allows us to change them.

– Example: The AccountTester would be useless if you could not specify how much you were depositing or withdrawing.

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Exertion Editor-Use Case

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Exertion Editor-Component Diagram

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Exertion Editor UI-Component Diagram

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Exertion Editor-Sequence Creator

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Exertion Editor- Sequence Submitter

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Exertion Editor-Class Diagram

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Sargent Circle

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Feasibility Study

• Create the Context Browser provider to test Life-Cycle methods– Get Context– Add Context– Update Context– Delete Context

• Utilize Arithmetic provider to demonstrate the power of the Exertion Editor.

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Summary

• Benefits of Exertion Editor– Simplified user interface– Less work for new provider creators

• In combination with a new Context Editor will provide:– Complete Context Management– Exertion initiation – Ability to use network determine a context

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