Re: [college] A benchmarking student project

[Bruno Dillenseger <bruno.dillenseger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'm sorry about the current status of CLIF documentation. The thing is that:

• CLIF is a very young/starting project, and as such, without user up to now;
• I've been clearing/refactoring its code during the past monthes, which will hopefully help utilization and contributions.

As a result, I did not spend time on documenting evolving code and features,
and the first documentation has become outdated.

I commited one week ago the new version based on Fractal 2, with some pieces
of Javadoc for relevant classes/interfaces. Be sure I'm now going to work
on documentation, especially if there are known CLIF users. Moreover, you
can expect active support from me.

Having users (and contributions?) from the ObjectWeb community is of course
of major importance for CLIF project.

Philippe, please contact me to tell me more about your needs and deadlines.

Best regards,
-- Bruno.
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Emmanuel Cecchet a écrit:
> Unfortunately,
> you are right but I think we can quickly find a solution. 
> Some documentation has been produced but not published on the web and  Bruno
> was recently porting CLIF to Fractal v2. 
> He is also working on updating the documentation. Bruno, can you tell us
>  more on this? 
>  
> Emmanuel 
>  
> Philippe Merle wrote: 
>  
> > Hi, 
> >  
> > If you tried to browse http://clif.objectweb.org 
> > and its OW gforge, you will discover that the 
> > documentation and examples are very poor (if exist).  Then it will be hard
> > to give this powerful framework 
> > to young students. They will have a lot of studies 
> > to understand how using the various middleware to 
> > benchmark. For these middleware, documentation and  examples exist.   
> > So we could try to apply CLIF in our context 
> > when we could understand how using CLIF and 
> > what the user benefits will be.    
> > Emmanuel Cecchet wrote: 
> >   
> >  
> > > I remind you that CLIF is an injection framework
> > > that has been designed 
> > > to inject load in a system to automate benchmarking. 
> > > CLIF is implemented in Fractal and I can only encourage other 
> > > initiatives to contribute to CLIF. 
> > > Main components include: 
> > > - scenarios to inject load 
> > > - sensors/probes to monitor the system 
> > > - console to deploy a distributed load, control the load injection 
> > > scenario and display monitoring information. 
> > >  
> > > Bruno Dillenseger is the lead of CLIF and will explain it much better 
> > > than me, but I encourage you to develop CILF scenarios (Fractal 
> > > components) to benchmark your systems. 
> > > We could organize a meeting of this topic if you wish. 
> > >  
> > > Emmanuel 
> > >     
> >