Release notes

In this section important changes to the LML's XML-Schema are documented.

Version 1.3
released in May 2013

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The LML namespace is changed to http://eclipse.org/ptp/lml in accordance to the namespace used within the Parallel Tools Platform (PTP).

Version 1.2
released in January 2013

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This version aims to split the two use-cases of an LML file: LML request and LML response. LML can be used as communication protocol. A client sends LML requests, while a server provides LML responses. An LML request contains merely a table of content listing all graphical components, which are requested by the client. The server interprets the request and returns a full LML file, which includes the orginal request as well as corresponding status data.

This LML version adds the special layout root element for LML request files. Thus, LML requests and LML responses can easily be distinguished. In addition, to better separation between both use-cases of LML, this modification simplifies the use of LML within the Parallel Tools Platform (PTP). The layout elements of LML can become part of target system configuration files. This allows for configuring an LML layout for each remote system, to which you connect via PTP.

All data, which is needed by LLview within an LML request, is now given by an LML layout file. Therefore, the filtering information provided by the pattern element is shifted from the table element to the tablelayout. Moreover, the nodedisplaylayout contains a schemehint element, which describes the supercomputer's hierarchy. The schemehint is used as the actual scheme in the nodedisplay generated by lml_da. The target namespace is now renamed into org.eclipse.ptp.lml as LML is also published within the PTP project.

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Version 1.1
released in April 2011

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A request-tag at the beginning of the LML-file is added. This tag allows to specify, if the current layout should be saved by the server. The attribute getDefaultData can be used to request data for the first time. Usually the client does not know anything about the monitored system at this moment. This request tag indicates the beginning of the development to use LML as a data-request language. Primarily LML is designed to sum up the current status of a parallel computer. In order to allow to request user-specific data from the server, some elements like the mentioned request-tag are added to the schema definition.

In this context the layout-attribute was added to the root-tag, which defines the current document to be a layout-only LML-instance. A layout-only LML-file is used as data-request. The layout-instance does not contain data, but empty data-stubs, which indicate that the requesting instance is interested in the data for this element. Moreover, corresponding layout-tags can be used to individualize the requests. For example a tablelayout-tag could specify that the user only displays two of five existing columns. As a result the server could just return the data for two columns instead for all. The request parts in LML will be used to reduce data transfer and to support more individual communication protocols between LML-requesting and LML-providing instances.

The last change in this version is that every component-layout (e.g. tablelayout, nodedisplaylayout, chartlayout, ...) can use an active-attribute to define if the corresponding visible component should be displayed. This can be used by the LML-provider to list additional components, which could be displayed, if the user requires these components.

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Version 1.0
released in October 2010

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This is the first published version of the XML-Schema for the LLview Markup Language. In this version the following graphical components can be described:
The layout-section is still in progress. The included components can be evaluated as draft versions. The following overall layout-definitions are included:
This version contains draft versions for special layout definitions for each graphical component:
There are a lot of ideas for improvement:



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