[orbit-user] Looking at the source code for original application

[Max Ott]

There are two instances where 'wrapper' may show up in the the tutorial.

You want to use an application with the Orbit controller framework
(nodehandler). In this case, there is NO need to change the
application. You simple write a 'application definition' file which
describes how to call the application and lists the command line
parameters available. After that, you can use the application from a
nodehandler script (as hopefully described in the tutorial). Think of
this as a "man page readable by a machine".

The second instance refers to extending an application to make use of
OML, the Orbit Measurement Collection Framework (OML). If that's what
you want to do, please drop me a line as we are close to releasing a
complete rewrite of OML which also comes with - hopefully - a much
simpler way (or at least more 'standard' one) to interface.

Let us know what you want to do and what you are stuck on. We know our
documentation could be a lot better. Real users like you often inspire
us to improve them.

-max

On Jan 9, 2008 7:05 PM, UJJWAL JAIN <ujjwal.ju at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hii,
> In the process of reading the tutorial,I have found that at first one has to
> create a wrapper application definition  over the original application whose
> path is specified in the wrapper application definition .For example in the
> tutorial for pingapp,the original application is  /usr/bin/ping and wrapper
> application over ping is " pingapp" .Can we look at the source code for the
> original ping implementation whose executable is in /bin/ping. And we also
> wanted to know is that the original ping implementation is in C?
>
> With regards,
> Ujjwal Jain & Rahul Agarwal,
> Jadavpur University,Kolkata
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Dr. Max Ott
Research Program Leader - Network and Pervasive Computing, NICTA Australia
Founder & CTO, Semandex Networks
Research Professor, WINLAB, Rutgers University
Senior Visiting Fellow, School of EE&T, UNSW