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Glossary Of Terms

When talking about ZipTie the following terms should be used to describe different pieces of the framework.

The more we stick with common terms the easier it will be to understand each other.

Term	Definition
Tool	An individual script executable from the standard right click menu. These generally fetch certain information about a device which is then displayed in a table view.
Plugin	Additional functionality added to ziptie via the eclipse plugin construct. A plugin exists as a file or folder as defined by OSGI and is dropped into the ziptie 'plugins' directory.
Bundle	same as a Plugin
Adapter	A collection of scripts (currently Perl), a metadata.xml document, a WSDL XML file, possible XSD files providing model extensions. In the future these files may be collected in an archive (.zar) for distribution. All of these files together form "an adapter".
Model Instance Document	An instance, represented in XML, of the "data model" as defined in the Core, Common, and Extension XSD files. This is the output of a "backup" performed by an Adapter.
Model Document	An XSD file describing, at least in part, the "data model" produced by an adapter.
Model Fragment	An XML document instance containing a subset of XML from the "data model". This XML document must still be valid. Fragments may be used as inputs to or outputs from operations on an Adapter.

Developer.Glossary moved from Main.Glossary on 07 Jun 2007 - 22:25 by BrettWooldridge - put it back

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