[Dsol-java] Experiment.setSimulator

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Hi All,

I have been trying to run experiments not using xml files to define the
experiment settings.

For this I created an Experiment object and used Experiment.setSimulator
method,  passing a DEVSSimulator object as parameter. This worked while I
did'nt create a DSOLApplication object.

To do animation, I had to create my own DSOLApplication and used the same
setExperiment() method as defined in DSOLApplication (not using xml files,
  nor URLs), but I got a Typecast error in the ControlPanel.notify()
method, line:

if (event.getType().equals(Experiment.SIMULATOR_CHANGED_EVENT)
    && event.getSource() instanceof Experiment)
   {
	if (event.getContent() != null)
		{
		AnimatorInterface simulator = (AnimatorInterface) event.getContent();

I solved the error by passing an Animator object instead of DEVSSimulator
in experiment.setSimulator.

Should the method Experiment.setSimulator(SimulatorInterface
simulator)have a Animator type parameter instead of SimulatorInterface or
the type-casting should be made to SimulatorInterface in
ControlPanel.notify()?


Thanks,

Francisco