OneSAF Guide for Managing Scenarios

SimVentions has created a OneSAF Start Guide to assist users in creating and editing simulation scenarios. This presentation, entitled "OneSAF Quick Start Guide" can be found under Documents in the left panel view.

OneSAF Connectivity Issues

Progress has been made in resolving the initial issues associated with the OneSAF Objective System (OOS) software, including the RTI and connectivity issues. SimVentions is currently working to resolve a mapping or settings issue which will allow for proper exchange of entities. In the meantime, SimVentions has developed a standalone entity driver identified as SV-AGG as an interim solution, which can be used for demonstration purposes.

Presentation at Spring SIW in Huntsville, AL

SimVentions presented a white paper for the Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW) entitled “Adding Aggregate Services to the Mix: An SOA Implementation Use Case.” The conference was held in Huntsville, AL from April 2nd-7th. The paper was nominated by the SISO Conference Committee as a candidate for inclusion in the Recommended Reading List and for a SIWzie award. The presentation used the the BAF Interface Specification v1.0 and BASS prototype as its main topics. The paper and presentation can be found by selecting Documents in the left panel view and will be listed as 06-SIW-116.pdf and 06-SIW-116.ppt.

Updates to BASS System Architecture

There have been several upgrades to the system architecture that BASS runs on. The upgrades include the Java JDK to 1.5, Eclipse to WTP 3.1.1, Apache Axis to 1.3, and Tomcat server to v5.5 to run web services on the server and client machines.

Web service test clients have been developed to validate the functionality of several BAF web service groups that have been updated in BASS to match the guidelines in BAF Interface Specification v1.0.

Finally, the MySQL database which is used to support BASS has been updated to reflect enhancements described in the BAF Spec.

Schemas created for BASS

SimVentions has developed XML-based schemas that are being integrated and tested as the functionality of BAF Interface Specification v1.0 is implemented. In addition, a pre-established schema will be used for defining BOMs and metadata structures.

The BOM Aggregation Support Server will leverage these schemas for defining the data which will pass through a number of BAF web services. The BAF Interface Specification provides more detail on these particular schemas. They include the following schemas:

BOM schema
LoadSupport schema
EntitySet schema
DataLog schema
Scoreboard schema
SessionHistory schema
TransferControl schema

The schemas can be found by selecting Documents on the left panel view. Then select the Schemas folder in the documents list.

Breakdown of FOMs into BOMs using BOMworks tool

SimVentions has been undertaking the process of breaking down the ACTF and Warsim FOMs into BOMs with the use of SimVentions BOMworks tool. The BOMs generated during this process will represent the different parts of the respective FOMs. Through this effort, the BOMs that are created from these respective FOMs can be composed to generate the FOMs once again. The resulting BOMs, being documented for future use, will be more easily understood by developers.