Advanced possibilities

SmartTools and OSGi configuration

This section describes the way to configure SmartTools and to start SmartTools over OSGi.

Configure World file

The World file is the first configuration read by SmartTools. It is alike a initialization script environment.

You want to get an environment where component A is connected to component B. This is the step you need to do.

You need to have a bundle that will set the world file to the Components Manager and starts the Components Manager. This bundle can be one of your component or a specificated bundle for that purpose.

 inria.smarttools.componentsmanager.World.getInstance().loadWorld(
   getClass().getResourceAsStream("/st.world"));
 for (int i = 0; i < context.getBundles().length; i++) {
  if (context.getBundles()[i].equals("componentsManager")) {
   context.getBundles()[i].start();
  }
 }

Two main types of components

There is two types of components: Simple components and documents components.

As you may use mainly simple components, documents components offer a structured model of your data.

Simple component

You have to define only one thing: a CDML, which a description of your component.

Document component

It has the same structure as the simple component, and it defines more concepts:

• Abstract grammar, called Absynt (like DTD or XSD)
• Optional concrete syntaxes, called Cosynt
• Optional views, called Lml

Link to Technical Overview

SmartTools generates automatically every parsers needed to the abstract grammar and every concrete syntaxes.

Every syntaxes are binded to the same data structure, so that you can translate from a syntaxe to an another syntax.

SmartTools offers out of the box Outline and XML views of your document. View it!

More information on the Wiki

You can get more information on the wiki.

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