Progress

Development of the Management component is on schedule, as posted on the Management reports page in the CS519g1 website on babbage. Progress is as follows:

• The ManagementClient class is nearly complete.
• A null implementation of the ManagmentServer class is in place. It is anticipated that with the arrival of a dedicated machine, a ManagementServer can be run perpetually for the use of other components during development and testing (using the completed ManagementClient).
• A preliminary version of the data structure which will be used for the ManagementClientLog is in place. It will certainly be modified and may be replaced; its Java Docs are not yet complete.
• A C library has been implemented. The library supports the Management function calls in C. It does this by making their C equivalents available to programmers, and implementing them by invoking a JVM which instantiates a ManagementClient class (which in turn spawns threads and makes and receives RMI calls).
• Test programs which use the Management function calls, in Java and in C, have been written and successfully run. Their documentation and comments still need to be brought up to date.