Standard Widget Graphics for Eclipse

What is Standard Widget Graphics for Eclipse?

Standard Widget Graphics (SWG) is a cross-platform client technology comprising rich vector-graphic controls and an animation framework that are integrated with existing standard user interface (UI) controls under a single common programming model; the existing controls are provided by the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) from Eclipse. Standard Widget Graphics facilitates the building of advanced, animated, rich-client applications, targeting business graphics, where the user interface/interaction experience can be highly visual, dynamic, and intuitive.

Since the introduction of windowing UI platforms, their programming for graphics for use in applications has remained fairly primitive and largely unchanged. The goal of the SWG is to simplify the task of including business graphics in rich-client applications by providing integrated high-level graphics support in a unified common programming model with the current UI controls (buttons, listboxes, labels, etc.), thus facilitating the creation of rich applications with graphical output such as dashboard-type programs. The goal, in a nutshell, is graphics made simple.

The overall target is not only to facilitate the programming and use of graphics but also to enrich the platform capabilities and provide advanced animation and dynamic update mechanisms for the UI, thereby potentially making the end user's experience more productive and enhancing the understanding of the application's output through rich, compelling, interactive visuals.

This technology runs on Windows®, Linux®, and Nokia.

How does it work?

Standard Widget Graphics for Eclipse provides new graphic widgets (controls) and an animation framework as new functionality within the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) that builds upon the existing SWT programming model and allows current SWT developer skills to be made use of. Graphics become much easier to program: Rather than having to deal with graphics in the traditional way, via a canvas with pens, brushes, etc., which ends up being fairly complicated, the developer now can simply add graphic objects (widgets), such as ellipses, polygons, etc. Using these new graphic objects, the SWT/platform now manages the drawing, hit detection, etc., just as is done with the existing UI controls such as button and label, greatly alleviating the work of the developer. In addition, new animation objects provide advanced interactive and dynamic behaviors for both the new graphic controls and the existing controls, making programming even easier.

Homepage: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/...

SkyEye - Open Source Simulator

SkyEye is an Open Source Software Project (GPL Licence). Origin from GDB/Armulator, The goal of SkyEye is to provide an integrated simulation environment in Linux and Windows. SkyEye environment simulates typical Embedded Computer Systems (Now it supports a series ARM architecture based microprocessors and Blackfin DSP Processor). You can run some Embedded Operation System such as ARM Linux, uClinux, uc/OS-II (ucos-ii) etc. in SkyEye, and analysis or debug them at source level.

Homepage: http://www.skyeye.org/

NxZilla - Mozilla on NanoX

Introduction

NXZILLA (formerly nanozilla) is a set of libraries that allow Mozilla to be used with a NanoX server. The NxZilla project has been adopted by the maintainers; It was originaly a developed while we were employed by TUXIA GmbH.

Download

You will need the Widget and Gfx source code as well as this patch against the mozilla build system.
You will need the Nano-X source. The version of Nano-X supported by this release is microwindows-0.89pre8
You also need the mozilla source. The version of mozilla supported by this release is mozilla-1.0rc2 Building

Complete steps to build NxZilla

1. Untar microwindows to a directory
2. cd to the microwindows source directory
3. Edit the 'config' file to your target systems configuration. Make sure you specify SHAREDLIBS = Y.
4. Build Nano-X
5. Untar the mozilla source to a directory
6. Untar the nxzilla source into the directory where you untarred mozilla
7. cd to the directory where the mozilla directory is
8. Apply the patch to the mozilla build system
9. cd into the mozilla directory
10. Run autoconf to create a new configure script
11. run ./configure --enable-toolkit-nanox --with-nanox-includes= --with-nanox-libraries=
12. Run make

Many people have had problems with these instructions. Therefore, here is an example set of specific instructions. It is assumed that all files downloaded have been placed in your home directory. The steps described here follow 1:1 with the steps described above.

U-Boot -- the Universal Boot Loader

U-Boot is a Boot Loader, i.e. its primary purpose in the shipping system is to load some operating system. That means that U-Boot is necessary to perform a certain task, but it's nothing you want to throw any significant resources at. Typically U-Boot is stored in relatively small NOR flash memory, which is expensive compared to the much larger NAND devices often used to store the operating system and the application.

Homepage: http://www.denx.de/...

ZABBIX -- An Enterprise-Class Open Source Distributed Monitoring Solution

ZABBIX is all-in-one 24x7 monitoring solution without high cost.

ZABBIX is software for monitoring of your applications, network and servers. ZABBIX supports both polling and trapping techniques to collect data from monitored hosts. A flexible notification mechanism allows easy and quickly configure different types of notifications for pre-defined events.

New in ZABBIX 1.4

• Installation Wizard

Installation Wizard automatically checks pre-requisites, database connectivity and generates configuration file for WEB front end.

• Support of new database engines

Support of SQLite has been implemented. It allows use of ZABBIX in embedded environments.

• WEB interface improvements

Speed and usability of WEB interface has been improved very much.

• New notification methods

Native support of Jabber messaging has been introduced.

• Distributed monitoring

ZABBIX distributed monitoring is made for complex environments consisting of different locations. ZABBIX supports monitoring of unlimited number of nodes. Centralized configuration allows easy configuration of all nodes from a single location.

ACC -- The AspeCt-oriented C compiler

AspeCt-oriented C is a research project conducted by the Middleware Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto. ACC enables aspect-oriented software development with the C programming language. AspeCt-oriented C consists of a compiler that translates code written in AspeCt-oriented C into ANSI-C code. This code can be compiled by any ANSI-C compliant compiler, like for example gcc.

AspeCt-oriented C is a proposed language design and compiler. ACC serves as one viable AspectC language design. For other designs see the Related Projects section in this Web.

AspeCt-oriented C ships with a set of Compiler Tools that help to use ACC as part of larger development projects, either to integrate aspects and ACC compiler into larger builds or to organize new software development builds with aspects in mind.

The short-term objective of the AspeCt-oriented C project is to build a robust compiler to support aspect-oriented programming with C. ACC achieves this by building on proven aspect-oriented language designs for other languages, most notably the AspectJ language for aspect-oriented programming with Java.

Long-term research objectives of the AspeCt-oriented C project include the investigation of

1. concern separation support and aspect-oriented language features tailored to the C language and the imperative style of programming;
2. aspect-orientation in the context of software written in C, especially systems software and middleware systems targeting embedded platforms (e.g., cell phones, PDAs, chip cards, sensor boards, telecommunications equipment, etc.);
3. techniques and tools for the development of highly customizable and easily configurable systems and middleware systems software product lines catering to the extensive world of C-based legacy systems.

Please browse the current and planned AspeCt-oriented C language Features, AspeCt-oriented C code snippets, language specification and other publications, our tutorial and a project status page. As well we encourage you to download the code, and contact us with any questions you may have.

About the AspeCt-oriented C Compiler

AspeCt-oriented C compiler has been built and is available for download. The compilation process is illustrated in the following figure.

Homepage: http://research.msrg.utoronto.ca/ACC

Linux Resource Statistic Monitor - StatSentry

What is Resource Statistic Monitoring?

Resource Statistic Monitor provides a consistent programmatic access to statistics and create threshold, watermark, and leaky bucket monitors for any instrumented subsystem in the Linux operating system. The architecture of the Resource Statistic Monitor defines five primary components:

1. Consumers - Linux applications that use the programmatic access.
2. Resource Monitor library - the interfaces used by Consumers for monitoring access.
3. Resource Monitor daemon - the runtime process that manages consumer monitoring requests and provides continuous monitoring of statistics.
4. Subsystem Monitor libraries - the subsystem-specific access methods used by the daemon to query statistic values.
5. Data Capture libraries - the data capture methods used by the daemon to store statistic values.

Resource Statistic Monitor is designed to be used by the following types of Consumer Applications:

1. Autonomous network management agents - Instrumentation of watermarks and thresholds can use/leverage the RM facility for operating system, driver and application monitors.
2. Graphical displays - Data can be obtained from RM and presented in graphical form.
3. Availability managers - Monitors can be established for critical system resources.

Resource Statistic Monitor depends on an event management system for logging and retention of events generated by statistics monitoring. The event management system used should provide consumer applications with mechanisms for subscribing to particular monitoring events based on event attributes. Resource Statistic Monitor conforms to the POSIX 1003.25 event logging interface, so any event management component that meets this specification may be used. By default, Resource Statistics Monitor links in the "evlog" event management system (see RELATED INFORMATION).

SourceForge.net: OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office

Overview

The goal for this project is to provide translators to allow for interoperability between applications based on ODF (OpenDocument) 1.0 standards and Microsoft OpenXML based Office applications. As a part of this interoperability initiative, add-ins are being developed that can be installed on top of Microsoft Office Word (document processing), Excel (spreadsheet) and PowerPoint (presentation) applications (Office 2007 / 2003 / XP version) to allow for opening and saving OpenDocument format / ODF files (.odt, .ods and .odp) that adheres to ODF 1.0 specifications. We also provide command line translator utilities that allow doing batch conversions.

The converter is based on XSL transformations between two XML formats, along with some pre- and post-processing to manage the packaging (zip / unzip), schema incompatibility processings and the integration into Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. We chose to use an Open Source development model that allows developers from all around the world to participate & contribute to the project.

Along with the Add-ins for Microsoft Word (v1.0 released), Excel (under development) and PowerPoint (under development), we also provide a command line translator that allows doing batch conversions. These translators can also be run on the server side for certain scenarios.

Contributors

This project involves several partners:

Clever Age (Dev & Project Management - France & Poland)

"Clever Age is an international IT services company specialized in software design and integration. It is based in France (Paris, Lyon and Bordeaux) and Poland (Gdansk, Katowice) with customers in Europe and the USA."

L7-filter -- Application Layer Packet Classifier for Linux

L7-filter is a classifier for Linux's Netfilter that identifies packets based on application layer data. It can classify packets as Kazaa, HTTP, Jabber, Citrix, Bittorrent, FTP, Gnucleus, eDonkey2000, etc., regardless of port. It complements existing classifiers that match on IP address, port numbers and so on.

Our intent is for l7-filter to be used in conjunction with Linux QoS to do bandwith arbitration ("packet shaping") or traffic accounting.

To download, see our Sourceforge project page

Swfdec -- a decoder/renderer for Macromedia Flash animations

Swfdec is the library for decoding and rendering Flash animations. It is still in heavy development. The intended audience are developers or people using it for pretested Flash animations (think embedded here). If you use it on unknown content, expect it to have issues and don't be surprised if it crashes. If you encounter such a crash however, make sure to file a bug immediately.

Swfdec-Mozilla

Swfdec-Mozilla contains a plugin for Mozilla browsers that uses the Swfdec library for playing SWF files.

Swfdec-Gnome

Swfdec-Gnome provides tools to integrate Flash into the GNOME desktop. It contains a standalone Flash player and a thumbnailer. You can find the latest releases on the Gnome servers.

Homepage: http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/