Description

The HB4 Structure Base (StructBase) provides a structure store to all HOSS programs. StructBase structure objects may have arbitrary content, arbitrary attribute/multi-value pairs, and arbitrary endset/multi-endpoint values. Versioning and transaction management functionality is provided.

The StructBase consists of a generic back-end, an abstract store layer, and abstract front-end, and an open set of extensions. Specific extensions provide either concrete implementations of the back-end or front-end. The current release provides three "standard" extensions: and Illustra back-end, a command-line front-end, and a GPT based front-end.

Documentation

• StructBase Programmer's Guide scheduled for release late June 1997
• StructBase Reference Guide scheduled for release late June 1997
  

Software Releases

Current release: SB-1.0.2 [1997.06.06]

Software requirements:
base component: H-4.2.1+
extensions: SIM-2.0.0+; GPT-1.1.1+; PDC-3.1.2+; Illustra 3.2
documentation: HDC-4.0.0+.
Distributions:

SB-1.0.2 source (95K)
SB-1.0.2 prebuilt for Sparc/Solaris 2.4 (4113K)


Scheduled next release: none

Change log:

SB-1.0.2 [1997.06.06] - new org, fixed static libs, spelling errors
SB-1.0.1 [1997.05.19] - plugged some memory leaks
SB-1.0.0 [1997.03.17] - initial release

Installation Instructions

To install the StructBase, follow the generic installation directions found on the general HOSS software information page. Symbolic links to the distribution directory and include directory are made by automatically when building the "install" target.

Problems

This section contains a list of known bugs, problems, and missing features. If you would like to report a bug, mail hadmin@csdl.tamu.edu.

The problems listed here refer to the current version of the StructBase, 1.0.2 [1997.06.06].

• redecalred typedefs in SBp_types-PDC.h (pnuern@csdl.tamu.edu)
  
• global gets, associate, and filters return no results (pnuern@csdl.tamu.edu)
  
• memory leak in the gpt fe extension (callbacks don't free memory) (pnuern@csdl.tamu.edu)