Development Information

This is a working document describing the ongoing struggles with the TSIMMIS project. It lists information and documents relevant for project management and for implementation. For public information such as release documentation or on-line demonstrations please follow the TSIMMIS project links.

Project Management

1. General TSIMMIS status overview
2. Summaries of Meetings & Code Reviews
3. Unresolved Issues (Check Weekly!)
4. Resolved Issues
5. TSIMMIS Architecture
6. Publications

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Implementation

1. Quick Primer on CVS (currently Lore specific)
2. Guidelines for coding

3. Individual Components

   1. Wrappers

      • Old data structures for representing the output of the converter:
        Sample Query 1 - Sample Query 2 - Sample Query 2 (continued)
        Description
      • Documentation for new wrappers, see Fig. 3 (Wrappers '96):
        Wrapper Components (Matcher, Parser, Library, Optimizer)

   2. MedMaker

      • Execution Engine
      • Execution Engine - Header File (describing supported operations)
      • Execution Engine - Test Suite

   3. SSL/CSL

      • Overview
        
      • Individual Components in detail
        Communication Library - libtmcomm.a
        Server Support Library - libtmssl.a
        Client Support Library - libtmcsl.a
        Update on CSL/SSL
        Fetch Protocol

   4. MOBIE

      • LOREL-MSL translator
      • Dynamic help pages
      • Propagation of status information from sources to user

4. Directory structure for source code
5. Complete list of error codes

6. Demo

   1. TSIMMIS v. 0
   2. TSIMMIS v. 1.0

Last updated: 1997-Aug-26
Michael Rys < rys@db.stanford.edu >