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+ <H1>Tuscany SDO C++ - Building STDCXX for Tuscany SDO</H1>
+
+ <P>STDCXX is an implementation of the C++ Standard Library provided by Apache.
+ </P>
+ <P>The website is at <A href="http://incubator.apache.org/stdcxx/">http://incubator.apache.org/stdcxx/</A>.
+ </P>
+ <P>At the time of writing, the current release is 4.1.3 and is available as
+ source distribution only. This document explains how to build stdcxx for
+ Windows XP and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 in the way required by the SDO build
+ process.
+ </P>
+ </DIV>
+ <DIV CLASS="section">
+ <H2>Contents</H2>
+ <OL>
+ <LI><A HREF="#install">Building STDCXX..</A>
+ <UL>
+ <LI><A HREF="#linux">..on Linux</A></LI>
+ <LI><A HREF="#win">..on Windows</A></LI>
+ </UL></LI>
+ </OL>
+ </DIV>
+
+ <DIV CLASS="section">
+ <A NAME="install"><H2>Building STDCXX</H2></A>
+ <A NAME="linux"><H3>Building STDCXX on Linux</H3></A>
+
+ <OL>
+ <LI>The release is distributed as a gzipped tar file, called
+ stdcxx-incubating-4.1.3.tar.gz. Extract the contents of this file into a
+ convenient directory. For this example, let's assume it is
+ /home/Tuscany/stdcxx-4.1.3
+ </LI>
+ <LI>Define the STDCXX_HOME environment variable to refer to this directory. The
+ Tuscany SDO build system uses this environment variable to locate stdcxx.
+ </LI>
+ <LI>Change directory to STDCXX_HOME. Then build a debug version of the stdcxx
+ library using the following command:
+ <PRE>gmake BUILDDIR=$STDCXX_HOME/Debug BUILDTYPE=15d CONFIG=gcc.config</PRE>
+ This will create a sub-directory of STDCXX_HOME called Debug and place the
+ build products below that.
+ </LI>
+ <LI>For a release version the command is:
+ <PRE>gmake BUILDDIR=$STDCXX_HOME/Release BUILDTYPE=12d CONFIG=gcc.config</PRE>
+ </LI>
+ </OL>
+ <P>This provides Tuscany SDO with the versions of stdcxx that it needs for both
+ Release and Debug builds.
+ </P>
+ <A NAME="win"><H3>Building STDCXX on Windows</H3></A>
+ <P>STDCXX is supported only when used with Microsoft Visual Studio C++ V7.1
+ </P>
+ <OL>
+ <LI>The release is distributed as a gzipped tar file, called stdcxx-incubating-4.1.3.tar.gz.
+ Extract the contents of this file into a convenient directory. For this example let's
+ assume it is C:\Tuscany\stdcxx-4.1.3
+ </LI>
+ <LI>Define the STDCXX_HOME environment variable to refer to this directory. The
+ Tuscany SDO build system uses this environment variable to locate stdcxx.
+ </LI>
+ <LI>Create two directories to contain the results of building stdcxx. The first is
+ for the debug enabled version and must be:
+ <PRE>&lt;STDCXX_HOME&gt;\Debug</PRE>
+ </LI>
+ <LI>The second is for the release (ie optimised) version and must be
+ <PRE>&lt;STDCXX_HOME&gt;\Release</PRE>
+ </LI>
+ <LI>Launch an MSVC++ 7.1 command window. In the command window, set the default
+ directory to &lt;STDCXX_HOME&gt; where there is a file called generate.bat. Create
+ the project definitions that MSVC++ 7.1 will need in order to build stdcxx by
+ running generate.bat using the following command:
+ <PRE>.\generate.bat /BUILDDIR:&lt;STDCXX_HOME&gt;\Debug /CONFIG:VC71</PRE>
+ It is necessary to provide the full, absolute path to the build directory - it
+ is not sufficient to provide a relative path. (This restriction will be fixed
+ in a future release.)
+ </LI>
+ <LI>Repeat this operation for the release build, via the command:
+ <PRE>.\generate.bat /BUILDDIR:&lt;STDCXX_HOME&gt;\Release /CONFIG:VC71</PRE>
+ </LI>
+ <LI>Still using the MSVC++ 7.1 command window, set the default directory to one of
+ the two build directories eg
+ <PRE>cd &lt;STDCXX_HOME&gt;\Debug</PRE>
+ </LI>
+ <LI>Then launch the developer studio via
+ <PRE>cd &lt;STDCXX_HOME&gt;\Debug</PRE>
+ </LI>
+ <LI>Select the configuration to build. For the Debug version of SDO this will be
+ "15d Debug Thread-safe Dll". Then select "Build Solution". The build will take
+ a while to complete and runs a test suite when it is finished. The test suite
+ is extensive and produces a scattering of errors, however the library build
+ itself is fine.
+ </LI>
+ <LI>Repeat this process for the release version, setting the default directory to
+ <PRE>cd &lt;STDCXX_HOME&gt;\Release</PRE>
+ and choosing "12d Optimized Thread-safe Dll" as the build configuration.
+ </LI>
+ </OL>
+ <P>This provides Tuscany SDO with the versions of stdcxx that it needs for both
+ Release and Debug builds.
+ </P>
+ </DIV>
+ </DIV>
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+
+Tuscany SDO Committers Guide
+============================
+
+All classes should be in the commonj/sdo namespace.
+
+The Tuscany SDO codebase consists of a number of abstract classes representing the SDO API. These
+are accompanied by a set of classes whose names end in Impl, which are the implementations of the
+API. For example the DataObject API is represented by the DataObject class, and implemented by
+the DataObjectImpl class.
+
+When pointers to classes are handed out by the library, they are really pointing at instances of
+the Impl class, but the application must not make that assumption.
+
+DataObjects and DataFactories inherit from a base class which maintains a reference count on
+itself (RefCountingObject). The pointers handed out are really classes holding a pointer to
+the object, such that they can contribute to the reference count when copied. These RefCountingPointers
+must not be deleted, they dispose of the underlying object when the reference count drops to
+zero.
+
+There is trace commented out of RefCountingObject, which can count and report the references. It is
+particularly useful to check that all instances are cleared at the end of a program run.
+
+The API for metadata consists of the DataFactory, Property and Type classes. All Properties and Types
+handed out to the client are const, so setting up the modifying the types is done using APIS of the
+data factory.
+
+The process of creating types is usually done by loading them from XSD, but can also be performed
+by using the data factory. Properties and Types may both be defined, but the data factory 'locks'
+itself as soon as the first DataObject is created. It does this because at that point it needs to
+resolve the type hierarchy, and perform validation. For consistency a Type may not be modified once
+an instance has been created.
+
+A data object contains properties, which are of a particular Type, however the API allows access to
+all properties using any of the methods. getString() may be called on a Boolean property etc. The
+conversion is attempted by the Type class, and either throws an exception or passes back a converted
+value according to the tables in the specification.
+
+The get/set APIs of DataObject are supplied by a set of macros in DataObjectImpl.cpp. These are
+duplicated for string and non-string, and also make it hard to debug effectively. They will be
+removed and replaced by methods in the future. For now, the easiest way to debug them is to be
+aware that each eventually calls the private no-params method, so for example all the getString(...)
+methods eventually call getString().
+
+The internal string handling is partially working with the SDOXMLString class, and partially still uses
+allocated char* buffers, these will be replaced by SDOXMLStrings in the future.
+
+The parsers for XML are absed on the SAX2Parser class, but the bulk of the processing is done by the
+startElementNS and similar methods in the SDOSchemaSAX2parser and SDOSAX2Parser classes. These are called
+back by the libxml2 library, and build a picture of the information which it then decoded by the XSDhelper
+or XMLHelper class into metadata or data.
+
+There are easy targets for improvements of performance, particularly in DataObject and parsing of XSD
+input, here is a list of a few that I can think of:
+
+DataObject frequently maps from Property to index, and this could be re-organized to avoid most of these.
+
+The allocation of space for property values could in most cases be dropped - its usually s fixed size
+element.
+
+The use of DataObject as a means of storing lists of primitives is not optimal, and should be replaced.
+
+The ChangeSummary class holds the previous value of any property when it is changed. At present, for many-
+valued properties, it holds the entire list as it was before an addition. This could just keep a record of
+the changes, and only save the old list when serializing.
+
+Parsing the XSD loops though types checking that all substitutes are covered, it would be good to
+replace this.
+
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+<h1 id="title">Tuscany SDO for C++ Design Notes</h1>
+<div id="content" dir="ltr" lang="en">
+<a id="top"></a>
+<p>See the 'live' verson of these notes at <a HREF="http://wiki.apache.org/ws/Tuscany/TuscanyCpp/DesignNotes">http://wiki.apache.org/ws/Tuscany/TuscanyCpp/DesignNotes</A>
+<h2 id="head-780571e8917285d0f0c1ebae03ade69ebb3fe51a">1. Logging</h2>
+
+<p>Logging is not mentioned in the V2.01 specification, however, a
+rudimentary logging capability is provided in the current
+implementation, using three classes. </p>
+<ul>
+<li><p> LogWriter </p>
+<ul>
+<li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>This defines an abstract class with a single <strong>log</strong> method. </p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li class="gap"><p> DefaultLogWriter </p>
+<ul>
+<li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>Instantiates <strong>LogWriter</strong> implementng a <strong>log</strong> method that writes to <strong>cout</strong> </p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li class="gap"><p> Logger </p>
+<ul>
+<li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>A class with a static pointer to a <strong>Logwriter</strong> object. When the class is loaded the pointer is initialized to a reference to an instance of <strong>DefaultLogWriter</strong>. <strong>Logger</strong> provides its own <strong>log</strong> and <strong>logArgs</strong> methods that use the <strong>log</strong> method of <strong>DefaultLogWriter</strong> </p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>In the current implementation, logging is seldom used. </p>
+
+<h2 id="head-7290fb54a6fb6ba18c63fd8a5cd6790051a515fc">2. Conversion from C style strings to C++ style strings</h2>
+
+
+<h2 id="head-507cb2b48b05cbdfcdb3d687945efc737433c25f">3. Debugging the XML parser</h2>
+
+<p>SDO uses the SAX parser provided by libxml2 (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://xmlsoft.org/index.html"><img src="DesignNotes_files/moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11"> http://xmlsoft.org/index.html</a>)
+to parse XML documents (and therefore XSD documents also). The SAX
+parser uses a callback mechanism to report XML events to its caller.
+These callback routines are supplied to the parser using a struct of
+type xmlSAXHandler, called SDOSAX2Handler that is defined in
+SAX2Parser.cpp. However, since libxml2 is written in C and operates
+with no knowledge of objects or classes, it is necessary to bridge the
+gap between libxml2's C-style call back mechanism and the objects that
+comprise SDO. This is done as follows. </p>
+<p>The file SAX2Parser.cpp defines (C style) functions for all the
+callback routines required by libxml2. Looking through that file, it is
+clear that many of those functions, such as sdo_internalSubset(), are
+empty, meaning that SDO will simply ignore that particular event if it
+is reported by libxml2. Where a callback function is not empty, the
+active contents usually take the form of a call such as </p>
+<p>(SAX2Parser*) ctx)-&gt;startDocument() </p>
+<p>This call is forwarding the event reported by libxml2 to a method within a parser object created by SDO. </p>
+<p>To understand this, we have to step back a little. A client of
+libxml2 initiates the parse of an XML instance by calling the
+xmlSAXUserParseFile() function. This function takes three parameters.
+The first is the struct containing the list of callback functions (ie
+SDOSAX2Handler) and the third is the name of the XML file to parse. The
+second parameter is of type <strong>void*</strong> and is not used by
+libxml2 directly. However, it is passed to every callback functon that
+libxml2 calls as part of this parse to supply them with whatever
+context information it represents. In Tuscany SDO that context is in
+fact a pointer to an object that implements the appropriate parsing of
+the file and these objects are instances of one of two classes, both of
+which are derived from a common base. The base class is SAX2Parser, and
+that defines virtual methods to handle events returned by libxml2. (In
+fact it defines methods for that subset of the events that SDO will
+use.) The two concrete classes are SDOSAX2Parser and
+SDOSchemaSAX2Parser. The former is used when parsing XML instance
+documents and the latter when parsing XML Schema Definitions. Both
+classes re-implement the methods that process SAX events to handle them
+in the appropriate way for either XML or XSD. </p>
+<p>Therefore, the overall process for parsing an XML or XSD input
+document and generating the corresponding data object or meta data
+structures in SDO as follows. </p>
+<p>1. Create an instance of SDOSAX2Parser for parsing XML instance
+documents or an instance of SDOSchemaSAX2Parser for parsing an XSD
+document. </p>
+<p>2. Pass the address of the SAX2Parser object just created to libxml2
+as the context parameter of the xmlSAXUserParseFile() function. </p>
+<p>3. As the parse unfolds, libxml2 will use the SDOSAX2Handler struct
+to call the callback function that is appropriate for each event that
+it is reporting. These will be C functions in SAX2Parser.cpp </p>
+<p>4. Many of those functions will simply return having done nothing
+because SDO has no interest in that particular event. However, when a
+SAX event is of interest, the C callback function will use the context
+parameter that libxml2 has supplied to it (ie the address of a
+SAX2Parser object) to call the method on that object that corresponds
+to the current SAX event. </p>
+<p>Simple. </p>
+<p>To watch the parsing of a file as it unfolds there are three broad
+options. If the file is an XSD then place breakpoints on the methods of
+SDOSchemaSAX2Parser. If it is an XML instance then set breakpoints on
+the methods of SDOSAX2Parser. If it could be either, then place
+breakpoints on the C functions that are named in SDOSAX2Handler and
+that are found in SAX2Parser.cpp </p>
+
+<h2 id="head-c0ac7aae89a380ef5b343dc5ebc99b721000ad93">4. Modifying the SDO Build to use the Apache stdcxx Standard C++ library</h2>
+
+<p>stdcxx is an implementation of the C++ Standard Library provided by Apache. The website is at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://incubator.apache.org/stdcxx/"><img src="DesignNotes_files/moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11"> http://incubator.apache.org/stdcxx/</a>. </p>
+<p>To build SDO using stdcxx rather than the native C++ library on
+Windows, the following modifications to the Microsoft Visual Studio
+.NET 2003 build environment are necessary. We assume that a source
+extract of stdcxx is already available in a directory called
+C:\Tuscany\stdcxx-4.1.3 (based on the version number of the current
+release at the time of writing). We also assume that debug and release
+versions of this library have been built in directories called
+C:\Tuscany\stdcxx-4.1.3\Debug and C:\Tuscany\stdcxx-4.1.3\Release. The
+process for building these is described here <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/ws-data/attachments/Tuscany%282f%29TuscanyCpp%282f%29DesignNotes/attachments/HowToBuildStdcxxForTuscanySDO.txt">HowToBuildStdcxxForTuscanySDO.txt</a> </p>
+<p>1. Define an environment variable, STDCXX_HOME to identify the root of the source extract tree ie C:\Tuscany\stdcxx-4.1.3 </p>
+<p>This is not strictly necessary but is convenient given how often we will refer to that location. </p>
+<p>2. Add the stdcxx include directories to the appropriate search path. These directories are </p>
+<ul>
+<li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>$(STDCXX_HOME)\include </p>
+<p>$(STDCXX_HOME)\include\ansi </p>
+<p>and either </p>
+<p>$(STDCXX_HOME)\Debug\include\15d - for a debug build </p>
+<p>or </p>
+<p>$(STDCXX_HOME)\Release\include\12d - for a release build </p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>For MSVC 7.1 these should be appended to the list found in
+Configuration Properties -&gt; C/C++ -&gt; General -&gt; Additional
+Include Directories </p>
+<p>3. Add environment variable definitions. These variables are </p>
+<ul>
+<li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>_RWSTD_USE_CONFIG </p>
+<p>_RWSHARED </p>
+<p>and _RWSTDDEBUG for a debug build </p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>4. Add the stdcxx library directory to the appropriate search path. This directory is </p>
+<ul>
+<li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>$(STDCXX_HOME)\Debug\lib - for a debug build </p>
+<p>and </p>
+<p>$(STDCXX_HOME)\Release\lib - for a release build </p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>For MSVC 7.1 these should be appended to the list found in
+Configuration Properties -&gt; Linker -&gt; General -&gt; Additional
+Library Directories </p>
+<p>5. Add the stdcxx library name as a dependency. The library name is </p>
+<ul>
+<li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>stdlib15d.lib - for a debug build </p>
+<p>and </p>
+<p>stdlib12d.lib - for a release build </p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>For MSVC 7.1 these should be appended to the list found in
+Configuration Properties -&gt; Linker -&gt; Input -&gt; Additional
+Dependencies </p>
+
+<h2 id="head-feededf8be9c9caa8efe879e11523875c15f44ce">5. Discriminated Types</h2>
+
+<p>Prior to the changes introduced in revision 502599, in response to
+JIRA TUSCANY-546, the C++ implementation made extensive use of C style
+macros, particularly in DataObjectImpl.cpp. This code had been
+motivated by the requirement for SDO to process a variety of different
+data types (integer, float, string etc) in very similar ways.
+Unfortunately, while macro code makes it easy to clone behaviour by
+instantiating the macro for different datatypes, it has several
+disdavantages. By far the most serious is the impossibility of
+debugging code that has been generated by the macro preprocessor,
+closely followed by the fact that most non-trivial macros are difficult
+to read and understand. These twin problems lead onto the common result
+that macro generated code is often inefficient. </p>
+<p>TUSCANY-546 remedies these problems by introducing a new class,
+SDOValue, defined in SDOValue.cpp and SDOValue.h. This class consists
+fundamentally of a union of all the possible data types that SDO must
+accommmodate, together with an enumerated type that identifies which
+particular data type is stored in the current object. The union and
+enumeration are themselves defined in DataTypeInfo.cpp and
+DataTypeInfo.h. </p>
+<p>Not surprisingly, SDOValue provides constructors to initialise an
+SDOValue object from any of the primitive data types. There are also
+retrieval methods that will extract a primitive value from an SDOValue,
+converting as necessary (and throwing an exception for those
+conversions that are impossible). For the most part these methods are
+straightforward. The only slight complications arise when dealing with
+primitives that are strings of characters. There are three such data
+types - </p>
+<p>String: This is a null terminated sequence of single byte
+characters. It corresponds to the C notion of a string, and the C++
+std::string class. </p>
+<p>WideString: This is a null terminated sequence of double byte
+characters. In C++ this might be represented by the std::wstring class,
+although in this implementation it is represented in the C fashion,
+using a pointer to a null terminated sequence of wchar_t elements. </p>
+<p>ByteArray: A sequence of bytes that is not terminated by a null character. An associated length value is therefore required. </p>
+<p>SDOValue objects represent such values with pointers to other
+objects or allocations of memory, therefore, copy operators and
+destructors must allow for the need to copy or delete the items that
+are at the far end of these pointers. </p>
+<p>From then on, the general strategy is straightforward. All methods
+that are part of the SDO external interface must be preserved. However,
+as far as possible, other methods that used to be replicated (by macro
+expansion) for each different datatype, are replaced by a single method
+that works with SDOValue objects. Where it is necessary to work with
+the actual primitive data type explicitly, this is normally done via a
+switch statement. The external methods that were previously generated
+by macro expansion are replaced by explicit code that is little more
+than a veneer that converts between the SDOValue that is used
+internally and the primitive data type that is required by the public
+interface. Numerous examples of this appear in DataObjectImpl.cpp, the
+getBoolean and setBoolean methods being typical. </p>
+<p>Code to convert between the various primitive data types is already
+available in the TypeImpl class. However, this is not ideal since a) as
+coded it is dependent on the TypeImpl class, even though that isn't
+strictly necessary and therefore b) it tends to bloat the already large
+TypeImpl class. The SDOValue code provides it's own conversion methods
+in the SDODataConverter class. The intention is to migrate all
+conversions in SDO to the methods in that class, however, that
+transition is not yet complete. </p>
+<a id="bottom"></a>
+
+</div>
+<p id="pageinfo" class="info" dir="ltr" lang="en">last edited 28.02.2007 13:24:53 by <span title="blueice2n1.uk.ibm.com">GeoffWinn</span></p>
+</div> <!-- end page -->
+
+</body></html> \ No newline at end of file
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
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+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
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+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
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