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

Service Context Management for Exertion-oriented Programming

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Presentation Agenda

• Problem Statement• Objective• Background knowledge• Design• Verification and Validation• Implementation• Demonstration• Benefits

Beginning

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Problem Statement

Beginning

• Problemo No full life-cycle for context management

in exertion-oriented programmingo The current Cataloger service does not

sufficiently display context detailso No service UI context editor for

interactive exertion-oriented programming

o No standard service UI for all providers

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Problem Statement

Beginning

• Conclusiono A life-cycle context management is

needed.o Life-cycle must support:

• Creating Contexts• Updating Contexts• Deleting Contexts

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Thesis Objectives

• Create a life-cycle to manage contexts• Provide service UI to allow for interactive

exertion-oriented programming• Ease new provider development in SORCER• Provide a common framework for Context

modifications• Minimize the modifications required to existing

providers

Beginning

Overview of 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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Roles In SOOA

• Two roles– Provider-provides a service to the network

• The service can be requested via an exertion• Provider expects a context from the requestor

with arguments for the method. – Requestor- is the client who connects to the

provider• Requestor creates exertion which is sent to

provider• Requestor must send context in a structure

provider will understand

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Need for a Life-Cycle

– Provider’s Issues• 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’s Issues• 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

• Create Exertion Editor which will allow for service context and exertion creation

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Life-Cycle Explained

• Context’s 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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ProviderList InterfaceBrowser ContextEditor

ControlPanel

Context Browser-Use Case

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Exertion Editor-Use Case

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Context Browser- Architecture Diagram

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Context Browser UI- Architecture Diagram

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Exertion Editor UI- Architecture Diagram

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Context Browser Sequence- Viewer

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Context Browser Sequence- Admin

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Exertion Editor-Sequence Creator

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Exertion Editor- Sequence Submitter

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Sargent Circle

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GroovyShell

Implementation

Check Implementation to Models

Check Implementation to Requirements

Data Validity

UML Modeling

Check Requirements to

Models

Requirements

Implementation to Validate Model

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

for new development

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Technical Architecture

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Utilities and Templates Web Exertion Based Clients

Requestor Service UIs Intraportal Extraportal

Infrastructure ProvidersJobber, Tasker, Spacer , Grider, Caller, Methoder, Cataloger, Notifier, Logger,

Reporter, Authenticator, Authorizer, Auditor, Policer, KeyStorer, Surrogater, Persister, FileStorer, SILENUS, FICUS

Persistence Provisioning and Activation

File Store Exertion Layer

J2EE, Jini, Rio, GApp

SORCER CoreServicer, ServiceProvider,

ServiceProviderBeanExertionDelegate, ServiceAccessor

Exertion Editor

Context Management

Context Browser

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.

• Address new provider development with integrated user interfaces

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Deployment

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Demonstration

Demonstration

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Selecting a provider

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Select Provider

Add New Provider

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New providers appear without disrupting the user

Modifying a context

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Double click a data node to edit

• Supported Data Types– String– Boolean– Integer– Double– Float– Groovy Expression– URL

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Double click a path to edit

• Directions-control if the path is marked for a particular operation– Default– Input– Output– InOutput

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Functions Provided

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Adds a new path

Adds a new data node

Removes currently selected

item

Functions Provided

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Empties the Context

Gives user option to load another saved

context

Provides user a method to remove

contexts

Functions Provided

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Save this context

Save this context as a different name

Exert the service and output result

context

Result of Exerting a Service

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Output context from exertion

Groovy Expressions

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Enter expression in terms of arithmetic0’s value

Result of Groovy Expression

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Output of the math operation

Integrated Exertion Editor

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New provider echo has no user interface

Utilize Default Editors

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Exertion Editor is now available for each provider

Benefits

• Uniform service context tracking by providers

• Uniform method context viewer and editor for service providers

• Intuitive Service UI for Cataloger service contexts per provider/interface method

• Intuitive Service UI for task service context

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References

• “Design Patterns: Model-View-Controller.” Java.sun.com. 01 Jan 2002. 20 Oct. 2008 <http://java.sun.com/blueprints/patterns/MVC.html>

• Sobolewski, Michael. “SORCER Research.” SORCER Research Lab at TTU. 20 Oct. 2008. <http://sorcer.cs.ttu.edu/fiper/fiper.html>

• Sargent, R. G. Verification, Validation, and Accreditation of Simulation Models. (J. A. Joines, R. R. Barton, K. Kang, & P. A. Fishwick, Eds.)

• Sobolewski, Michael. “Exertion Oriented Programming.” Page 19. <http://sorcer.cs.ttu.edu/publications/papers/2008/SL-TR-13.pdf>

• Soorianarayanan, Sekar and Sobolewski, Michael. SORCER Proth. Slide 6. <http://sorcer.cs.ttu.edu/publications/presentations/proth-hpcc.ppt>

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