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Juliot Etienne <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: lgpl
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Package: CorbaTrace
System name: corbatrace
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CorbaTrace is a helpful tool for tracing communications beetween Corba objects.
Once CorbaTrace installed, remote call are intercepted and informations are 
store in XML files. So, you will be able to apply filter and get a XMI files to 
see, like an UML graph sequence, the communications beetween distant objects.

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When you develop distributed software, it\'s very hard to find bugs and to 
understand where are troubles in your architecture. 
Corba is one of the best, complete and more use standardisation of middleware 
architecture. 

So we have done a tool that can trace communication easyly beetween objects and 
see the result with a graphic.

CorbaTrace is based on a newness of Corba 2.3 : portable interceptors. It 
allows to minimize the modification a code source of the application to install 
CorbaTrace.
The results of the interception are written in XMI, which is the OMG\'s format 
to store an UML graphics in XML. So, you can use any AGL that support XMI to 
see a graph sequence.

Corbatrace is not based on a property software but on OMG specifications. It\'s 
write in Java (but it may be rewritted in C++), and its license is LGPL (the 
free license of the Free Software Fondation).

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CorbaTrace was begun in september 2000, in the University of Nantes, for a 
project of two students in Master. They do a lot of search because portable 
interceptors was very new and just implemented. They based there work on 
Orbacus examples.
The project was continuous and improved by 5 students in DESS Genie 
Informatique of Nantes (sept. 2001 - today). All the architecture was changed 
and upgraded (XML and so).
The project was ignited by a faculty professor : Philippe Lamarre.
Thanks to him for all its advise. Thanks too to Mr Attiobe.

Today, CorbaTrace begin to work. There is a lot of test to do and all the XMI 
part must be done. But interceptions already work.