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DMPlugin Wizard Quick Guide

1. Introduction

2. The Menu Bar

3. The Main Panel

4. The Components Tree

5. The Fields

6. The Input Files

7. The Output Files

1. Introduction

The DMPlugin Application Wizard is a GUI which allows a developer to create the constructor for its DMPlugin in an user friendly way.

 2. The Menu Bar

The Menu presents different options:

• New: creates a new DMPlugin

• Save: saves the current DMPlugin into a dmpc file

• Load: loads the DMPlugin from a dmpc file

• Generate code: generates the java file from the currently loaded DMPlugin

• Exit: closes the program

3. The Main Panel

The main panel contains the main informations of a DMPlugin.

Plugin informations:

• Name: the name of the DMPlugin

• Documentation: a link to the plugin documentation

• Version: the plugin version

• Domains: the plugin scientific domains (ex. Classification-regression)

Owner informations:

• Owner Name: the plugin creator name

• Owner Mail: the plugin creator mail address
  

This section contains the possible running modes. For each running modes there is a check box, which can be used to create or cancel it, and a documentation area which must contain a link to the running mode documentation. The running time is the DMPlugin scheduling priority. An high running time means that the DMPlugin is most likely to be executed on the GRID environment.

4. The Components Tree

The components tree contains the plugin's running modes, each one with its fields, input files and output files.

To add a new element, simply select input file, field or output file in the desidered running mode and use the add button.

To edit or delete an element, select the element and use the edit or the delete button

5. The Fields

The plugin fields are the data that a plugin must receive to execute an experiment.

• Name: the field name

• Type: the field type, chosen from the standard java types

• UCD: the field Unified Content Descriptor

• Unit: the field measurement unit

• Precision: the field precision

• Utype: the field utype

• Description: the field description

• Constraint type: the field constraint type:

• None: this field has no constraints

• Range: this field accepts only values inside a closed range

• Values: this field accepts only values inside a discrete range

• Constraints: the field constraints, separated by a blank space. If the constraint type is “None” this element is empty. If the constraint type is “Range” this element must contain two ordered values. Otherwise this element can contain an indefinite number of values.

• Is Optional: if this box is checked than the user can ignore the field when configuring the DMPlugin components data.

6. The Input Files

The input files are the files the plugin must receive to execute an experiment.

• Name: the file name

• Description: the file description

• Tags: When an user wants to use a dataset as a plugin input file, he may need to provide additional informations about the file columns. The tags are the informations that the user can assign to each column. The tags must be separated by an empty space.

• Is Optional: if this box is checked than the user can ignore the file when configuring the DMPlugin components data.

7. The Output Files

The output files are the files that the plugin creates during or at the end of an experiment.

• Name: the file name

• Description: the file description

• Format: the file format

• Is Partial: if this box is checked than the file is created during the experiment execution. If this box is unchecked the file is created at the end of the experiment.