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From: <jsa...@us...> - 2008-11-18 20:29:23
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Revision: 112
http://flexotask.svn.sourceforge.net/flexotask/?rev=112&view=rev
Author: jsauerbach
Date: 2008-11-18 20:29:20 +0000 (Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
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<h1 style="text-align: center; color: #ff0000">Flexible Task Graphs</h1>
</center>
-<p>This site provides the source to the non-JVM-dependent parts of the
-<b>Flexible Task Graphs</b> system as described in the following
-paper, which provides an introduction to this work.
+<p>Welcome to the <b>Flexible Task Graphs</b> web site. All
+installations are via the Eclipse Update mechanism.
+
<ul>
+<li><a href="http://flexotask.wiki.sourceforge.net/installing">How to
+install just the open source components</a>. These include the
+development environment, runtime APIs, documentation, and support for
+simulated execution and testing. You can later install the additional
+software to support real-time execution.
+
+<li><a href="http://flexotask.wiki.sourceforge.net/jointInstall">How
+to install a complete system</a>. Includes the open source components
+from this site plus additional non-open-source software from IBM
+DeveloperWorks and IBM AlphaWorks to support real-time execution in
+the IBM WebSphere Real Time VM.
+</ul>
+
+<p>The <b>Flexible Task Graphs</b> system is described in the following
+paper, which provides an introduction to our work.
+<ul>
<li><a
href="http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/bacon.refereed-pubs.html/$FILE/Auerbach08Flexible-final.pdf">Flexible
task graphs: a unified restricted thread programming model for
java</a> by Joshua Auerbach, David F. Bacon, Rachid Guerraoui, Jesper
Honig Spring, and Jan Vitek, published in LCTES 2008.
</ul>
-<p>The JVM-dependent parts of the system (for IBM's WebSphere Real
-Time VM) will be made available separately on <a
-href="http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com">IBM AlphaWorks</a> in the near
-future. The expected date is November 18 but the details are beyond
-our personal control.
-<p>Once the IBM AlphaWorks release occurs, you will be able to go to
-that web site to receive integrated instructions allowing you to
-install both portions of the support. Meanwhile, you are welcome to
-install just the open source portions from this site. Installation is
-via the Eclipse Update Mechanism as explained <a
-href="http://flexotask.wiki.sourceforge.net/installing">in our
-installation instructions wiki page</a>.
-
<p>The Flexible Task Graphs open source project, far from reflecting
"completed" work, is an active project with much left to accomplish.
We expect to accept contributions from new authors. Our goal is to
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model to incorporate into the next generation of standards for Real
Time Java. Contributions can take the form of new plugins (timing
grammars, schedulers, distributers, or tracing packages), new
-front-end tools, or improvements to the framework itself. Please
-contact <a href="mailto:jsa...@us...">Joshua
-Auerbach</a>. You may also visit our <a
+front-end tools, or improvements to the framework itself.
+
+<ul>
+<li>Please contact <a href="mailto:jsa...@us...">Joshua
+Auerbach</a> if you are interested in contributing to this project.
+<li>You may also visit our <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/flexotask">our sourceforge
project page</a> for more information and subscribe to one or more of
our mailing lists. The mailing lists are structured so that all
subscribers (but only subscribers) may send to them.
+</ul>
<p>The Flexible Task Graphs open source codebase was developed at IBM
-(or under research agreements with IBM) from the older Exotask code
-base and is being made available by IBM under the Eclipse Public
-License. Primary developers were Joshua Auerbach and Jesper Honig
-Spring, with substantial design input from David Bacon and Jan Vitek.
-However, Flexible Task Graphs are a unification of four previous
-programming models, and the contributers to those models are therefore
-indirect contributers to the present work. Here are pointers to the
-older background papers.
+(or under research agreements with IBM) starting from the older
+Exotasks code base. It is being made available by IBM under the
+Eclipse Public License. Code was written by Joshua Auerbach and
+Jesper Honig Spring, with design guidance from David Bacon and Jan
+Vitek. Flexible Task Graphs are a unification of four previous
+programming models, so the authors of those models can all be counted
+as having influenced the present model. Here are pointers to the
+papers describing the original models that influenced this work.
<ul>
<li><a
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