[news.eclipse.tools.hyades] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION: Data Collection Event

["Richard Duggan" <rduggan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION: Data Collection Events.

Once of the goals of Hyades is to provide a common event structure for
expressing the data that has been collected from the various data
collectors. We would like to solicit membership for each of the subgroups
listed below. These subgroups would structurally report to the Data
Collection group. The initial scope is intentionally brief and will be made
more definite by the individual subgroup membership. If you are interested
in contributing to one or more of the following subgroups please respond to
the hyades-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list with your contact information and
interests. Group leaders will initially be selected from the hyades-team
membership. Members of the hyades-team can discuss leadership on the
hyades-team list.



**Trace/profiling events

The Java Profiler that has already been dropped to Hyades generates a well
defined set of events that represent the memory and execution behaviour of
the Java application that is being profiled. The role of this subgroup would
be to start with this specification and look at broadening its scope to
encapsulate other languages and execution environments. Data collected from
these environments and data collectors can be communicated in a common
format. The existing event format can be found at
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextools.cgi/~checkout~/hyades-home/docs/co
mponents/data_collection/docs/XML4Profiling.htm

**Logging events

One of the goals of the logging infrastructure in Hyades is to define a
extensible common logging event that can be used to capture log events and
correlate events across multiple environments and products. This subgroup
would be expected to start with the Common Base Event logging structure that
has already been dropped to Hyades. The specification for the Common Base
Event is available at
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextools.cgi/~checkout~/hyades-home/docs/co
mponents/data_collection/docs/cbe.pdf

**Statistical events.

The statistical events are those events that are generated by statistical
data collectors. Statistical data would be targeted for the statistical
portion of the model. There is no existing specification for this type of
data collection.

** Test Execution events

The test execution events are those data events that are the result of an
application under test. These data events would be intended to populate the
test execution portion of the model. There is no existing specification for
this type of data.