Chapter 7. OW2 FraSCAti Explorer

Table of Contents

Description
Functionalities
Usage
Launching FraSCAti Explorer
Loading an SCA composite description
Browsing an SCA application
FraSCAti explorer plugins
FraSCAti Script plugin

Description

OW2 FraSCAti Explorer is a management tool for SCA-based applications running on top of OW2 FraSCAti.

It relies on the Fractal Explorer (http://fractal.objectweb.org/fractalexplorer/) tool.

Functionalities

A non-exhaustive list of functionalities:

  • loading and starting an SCA composite file (from a file system or inside a jar)

  • exploring a running SCA application

    • discovering SCA composites

    • discovering SCA components

    • discovering SCA services and references

    • discovering SCA properties

    • discovering SCA bindings

    • discovering SCA intents

  • start/stop components or composites

  • invoke methods (only the run() method at this time)

  • switch from the SCA view to the Fractal Vie

  • reconfigure applications dynamically.