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  • 26 Days: Countdown to Oracle OpenWorld 2012

    - by Michael Snow
    Welcome to our countdown to Oracle OpenWorld! Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is just around the corner. In less than 26 days, San Francisco will be invaded by an expected 50,000 people from all over the world. Here on the Oracle WebCenter team, we’ve all been working to help make the experience a great one for all our WebCenter customers. For a sneak peak  – we’ll be spending this week giving you a teaser of what to look forward to if you are joining us in San Francisco from September 30th through October 4th. We have Oracle WebCenter sessions covering all topics imaginable. Take a look and use the tools we provide to build out your schedule in advance and reserve your seats in your favorite sessions.  That gives you plenty of time to plan for your week with us in San Francisco. If unfortunately, your boss denied your request to attend - there are still some ways that you can join in the experience virtually On-Demand. This year - we are expanding even more up North of Market Street and will be taking over Union Square as well. Check out this map of San Francisco to get a sense of how much of a footprint Oracle OpenWorld has grown to this year. With so much to see and so many sessions to learn from - its no wonder that people get excited. Add to that a good mix of fun and all of the possible WebCenter sessions you could attend - you won't want to sleep at all to take full advantage of such an opportunity. We'll also have our annual WebCenter Customer Appreciation reception - stay tuned this week for some more info on registration to make sure you'll be able to join us. If you've been following the America's Cup at all and believe in EXTREME PERFORMANCE you'll definitely want to take a look at this video from last year's OpenWorld Keynote. 12.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii- mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi- mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Important OpenWorld Links:  Attendee / Presenters Toolkit Oracle Schedule Builder WebCenter Sessions (listed in the catalog under Fusion Middleware as "Portals, Sites, Content, and Collaboration" ) Oracle Music Festival - AMAZING Line up!!  Oracle Customer Appreciation Night -LOOK HERE!! Oracle OpenWorld LIVE On-Demand Here are all the WebCenter sessions broken down by day for your viewing pleasure. Monday, October 1st CON8885 - Simplify CRM Engagement with Contextual Collaboration Are your sales teams disconnected and disengaged? Do you want a tool for easily connecting expertise across your organization and providing visibility into the complete sales process? Do you want a way to enhance and retain organization knowledge? Oracle Social Network is the answer. Attend this session to learn how to make CRM easy, effective, and efficient for use across virtual sales teams. Also learn how Oracle Social Network can drive sales force collaboration with natural conversations throughout the sales cycle, promote sales team productivity through purposeful social networking without the noise, and build cross-team knowledge by integrating conversations with CRM and other business applications. CON8268 - Oracle WebCenter Strategy: Engaging Your Customers. Empowering Your Business Oracle WebCenter is a user engagement platform for social business, connecting people and information. Attend this session to learn about the Oracle WebCenter strategy, and understand where Oracle is taking the platform to help companies engage customers, empower employees, and enable partners. Business success starts with ensuring that everyone is engaged with the right people and the right information and can access what they need through the channel of their choice—Web, mobile, or social. Are you giving customers, employees, and partners the best-possible experience? Come learn how you can! ¶ HOL10208 - Add Social Capabilities to Your Enterprise Applications Oracle Social Network enables you to add real-time collaboration capabilities into your enterprise applications, so that conversations can happen directly within your business systems. In this hands-on lab, you will try out the Oracle Social Network product to collaborate with other attendees, using real-time conversations with document sharing capabilities. Next you will embed social capabilities into a sample Web-based enterprise application, using embedded UI components. Experts will also write simple REST-based integrations, using the Oracle Social Network API to programmatically create social interactions. ¶ CON8893 - Improve Employee Productivity with Intuitive and Social Work Environments Social technologies have already transformed the ways customers, employees, partners, and suppliers communicate and stay informed. Forward-thinking organizations today need technologies and infrastructures to help them advance to the next level and integrate social activities with business applications to deliver a user experience that simplifies business processes and enterprise application engagement. Attend this session to hear from an innovative Oracle Social Network customer and learn how you can improve productivity with intuitive and social work environments and empower your employees with innovative social tools to enable contextual access to content and dynamic personalization of solutions. ¶ CON8270 - Oracle WebCenter Content Strategy and Vision Oracle WebCenter provides a strategic content infrastructure for managing documents, images, e-mails, and rich media files. With a single repository, organizations can address any content use case, such as accounts payable, HR onboarding, document management, compliance, records management, digital asset management, or Website management. In this session, learn about future plans for how Oracle WebCenter will address new use cases as well as new integrations with Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications, leveraging your investments by making your users more productive and error-free. ¶ CON8269 - Oracle WebCenter Sites Strategy and Vision Oracle’s Web experience management solution, Oracle WebCenter Sites, enables organizations to use the online channel to drive customer acquisition and brand loyalty. It helps marketers and business users easily create and manage contextually relevant, social, interactive online experiences across multiple channels on a global scale. In this session, learn about future plans for how Oracle WebCenter Sites will provide you with the tools, capabilities, and integrations you need in order to continue to address your customers’ evolving requirements for engaging online experiences and keep moving your business forward. ¶ CON8896 - Living with SharePoint SharePoint is a popular platform, but it’s not always the best fit for Oracle customers. In this session, you’ll discover the technical and nontechnical limitations and pitfalls of SharePoint and learn about Oracle alternatives for collaboration, portals, enterprise and Web content management, social computing, and application integration. The presentation shows you how to integrate with SharePoint when business or IT requirements dictate and covers cloud-based (Office 365) and on-premises versions of SharePoint. Presented by a former Microsoft director of SharePoint product management and backed by independent customer research, this session will prepare you to answer the question “Why don’t we just use SharePoint for that?’ the next time it comes up in your organization. ¶ CON7843 - Content-Enabling Enterprise Processes with Oracle WebCenter Organizations today continually strive to automate business processes, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. Many business processes are content-intensive and unstructured, requiring ad hoc collaboration, and distributed in nature, requiring many approvals and generating huge volumes of paper. In this session, learn how Oracle and SYSTIME have partnered to help a customer content-enable its enterprise with Oracle WebCenter Content and Oracle WebCenter Imaging 11g and integrate them with Oracle Applications. ¶ CON6114 - Tape Robotics’ Newest Superhero: Now Fueled by Oracle Software For small, midsize, and rapidly growing businesses that want the most energy-efficient, scalable storage infrastructure to meet their rapidly growing data demands, Oracle’s most recent addition to its award-winning tape portfolio leverages several pieces of Oracle software. With Oracle Linux, Oracle WebLogic, and Oracle Fusion Middleware tools, the library achieves a higher level of usability than previous products while offering customers a familiar interface for management, plus ease of use. This session examines the competitive advantages of the tape library and how Oracle software raises customer satisfaction. Learn how the combination of Oracle engineered systems, Oracle Secure Backup, and Oracle’s StorageTek tape libraries provide end-to-end coverage of your data. ¶ CON9437 - Mobile Access Management With more than five billion mobile devices on the planet and an increasing number of users using their own devices to access corporate data and applications, securely extending identity management to mobile devices has become a hot topic. This session focuses on how to extend your existing identity management infrastructure and policies to securely and seamlessly enable mobile user access. CON7815 - Customer Experience Online in Cloud: Oracle WebCenter Sites, Oracle ATG Apps, Oracle Exalogic Oracle WebCenter Sites and Oracle’s ATG product line together can provide a compelling marketing and e-commerce experience. When you couple them with the extreme performance of Oracle Exalogic, you’ll see unmatched scalability that provides you with a true cloud-based solution. In this session, you’ll learn how running Oracle WebCenter Sites and ATG applications on Oracle Exalogic delivers both a private and a public cloud experience. Find out what it takes to get these systems working together and delivering engaging Web experiences. Even if you aren’t considering Oracle Exalogic today, the rich Web experience of Oracle WebCenter, paired with the depth of the ATG product line, can provide your business full support, from merchandising through sale completion. ¶ CON8271 - Oracle WebCenter Portal Strategy and Vision To innovate and keep a competitive edge, organizations need to leverage the power of agile and responsive Web applications. Oracle WebCenter Portal enables you to do just that, by delivering intuitive user experiences for enterprise applications to drive innovation with composite applications and mashups. Attend this session to learn firsthand from customers how Oracle WebCenter Portal extends the value of existing enterprise applications, business processes, and content; delivers a superior business user experience; and maximizes limited IT resources. ¶ CON8880 - The Connected Customer Experience Begins with the Online Channel There’s a lot of talk these days about how to connect the customer journey across various touchpoints—from Websites and e-commerce to call centers and in-store—to provide experiences that are more relevant and engaging and ultimately gain competitive edge. Doing it all at once isn’t a realistic objective, so where do you start? Come to this session, and hear about three steps you can take that can help you begin your journey toward delivering the connected customer experience. You’ll hear how Oracle now has an integrated digital marketing platform for your corporate Website, your e-commerce site, your self-service portal, and your marketing and loyalty campaigns, and you’ll learn what you can do today to begin executing on your customer experience initiatives. ¶ GEN11451 - General Session: Building Mobile Applications with Oracle Cloud With the prevalence of smart mobile devices, companies are facing an increased demand to provide access to data and applications from new channels. However, developing applications for mobile devices poses some unique challenges. Come to this session to learn how Oracle addresses these challenges, offering a simpler way to develop and deploy cross-device mobile applications. See how Oracle Cloud enables you to access applications, data, and services from mobile channels in an easier way.  CON8272 - Oracle Social Network Strategy and Vision One key way of increasing employee productivity is by bringing people, processes, and information together—providing new social capabilities to enable business users to quickly correspond and collaborate on business activities. Oracle WebCenter provides a user engagement platform with social and collaborative technologies to empower business users to focus on their key business processes, applications, and content in the context of their role and process. Attend this session to hear how the latest social capabilities in Oracle Social Network are enabling organizations to transform themselves into social businesses.  --- Tuesday, October 2nd HOL10194 - Enterprise Content Management Simplified: Oracle WebCenter Content’s Next-Generation UI Regardless of the nature of your business, unstructured content underpins many of its daily functions. Whether you are working with traditional presentations, spreadsheets, or text documents—or even with digital assets such as images and multimedia files—your content needs to be accessible and manageable in convenient and intuitive ways to make working with the content easier. Additionally, you need the ability to easily share documents with coworkers to facilitate a collaborative working environment. Come to this session to see how Oracle WebCenter Content’s next-generation user interface helps modern knowledge workers easily manage personal and enterprise documents in a collaborative environment.¶ CON8877 - Develop a Mobile Strategy with Oracle WebCenter: Engage Customers, Employees, and Partners Mobile technology has gone from nice-to-have to a cornerstone of user engagement. Mobile access enables users to have information available at their fingertips, enabling them to take action the moment they make a decision, interact in the moment of convenience, and take advantage of new service offerings in their preferred channels. All your employees have your mobile applications in their pocket; now what are you going to do? It is a critical step for companies to think through what their employees, customers, and partners really need on their devices. Attend this session to see how Oracle WebCenter enables you to better engage your customers, employees, and partners by providing a unified experience across multiple channels. ¶ CON9447 - Enabling Access for Hundreds of Millions of Users How do you grow your business by identifying, authenticating, authorizing, and federating users on the Web, leveraging social identity and the open source OAuth protocol? How do you scale your access management solution to support hundreds of millions of users? With social identity support out of the box, Oracle’s access management solution is also benchmarked for 250-million-user deployment according to real-world customer scenarios. In this session, you will learn about the social identity capability and the 250-million-user benchmark testing of Oracle Access Manager and Oracle Adaptive Access Manager running on Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata. ¶ HOL10207 - Build an Intranet Portal with Oracle WebCenter In this hands-on lab, you’ll work with Oracle WebCenter Portal and Oracle WebCenter Content to build out an enterprise portal that maximizes the productivity of teams and individual contributors. Using browser-based tools, you’ll manage site resources such as page styles, templates, and navigation. You’ll edit content stored in Oracle WebCenter Content directly from your portal. You’ll also experience the latest features that promote collaboration, social networking, and personal productivity. ¶ CON2906 - Get Proactive: Best Practices for Maintaining Oracle Fusion Middleware You chose Oracle Fusion Middleware products to help your organization deliver superior business results. Now learn how to take full advantage of your software with all the great tools, resources, and product updates you’re entitled to through Oracle Support. In this session, Oracle product experts provide proven best practices to help you work more efficiently, plan and prepare for upgrades and patching more effectively, and manage risk. Topics include configuration management tools, remote diagnostics, My Oracle Support Community, and My Oracle Support Lifecycle Advisors. New users and Oracle Fusion Middleware experts alike are guaranteed to leave with fresh ideas and practical, easy-to-implement next steps. ¶ CON8878 - Oracle WebCenter’s Cloud Strategy: From Social and Platform Services to Mashups Cloud computing represents a paradigm shift in how we build applications, automate processes, collaborate, and share and in how we secure our enterprise. Additionally, as you adopt cloud-based services in your organization, it’s likely that you will still have many critical on-premises applications running. With these mixed environments, multiple user interfaces, different security, and multiple datasources and content sources, how do you start evolving your strategy to account for these challenges? Oracle WebCenter offers a complete array of technologies enabling you to solve these challenges and prepare you for the cloud. Attend this session to learn how you can use Oracle WebCenter in the cloud as well as create on-premises and cloud application mash-ups. ¶ CON8901 - Optimize Enterprise Business Processes with Oracle WebCenter and Oracle BPM Do you have business processes that span multiple applications? Are you grappling with how to have visibility across these business processes; how to manage content that is associated with these processes; and, most importantly, how to model and optimize these business processes? Attend this session to hear how Oracle WebCenter and Oracle Business Process Management provide a unique set of integrated solutions to provide a composite application dashboard across these business processes and offer a solution for content-centric business processes. ¶ CON8883 - Deliver Engaging Interfaces to Oracle Applications with Oracle WebCenter Critical business processes live within enterprise applications, and application users need to manage and execute these processes as effectively as possible. Oracle provides a comprehensive user engagement platform to increase user productivity and optimize overall processes within Oracle Applications—Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle’s Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards product families—and third-party applications. Attend this session to learn how you can integrate these applications with Oracle WebCenter to deliver composite application dashboards to your end users—whether they are your customers, partners, or employees—for enhanced usability and Web 2.0–enabled enterprise portals.¶ Wednesday, October 3rd CON8895 - Future-Ready Intranets: How Aramark Re-engineered the Application Landscape There are essential techniques and technologies you can use to deliver employee portals that garner higher productivity, improve business efficiency, and increase user engagement. Attend this session to learn how you can leverage Oracle WebCenter Portal as a user engagement platform for bringing together business process management, enterprise content management, and business intelligence into a highly relevant and integrated experience. Hear how Aramark has leveraged Oracle WebCenter Portal and Oracle WebCenter Content to deliver a unified workspace providing simpler navigation and processing, consolidation of tools, easy access to information, integrated search, and single sign-on. ¶ CON8886 - Content Consolidation: Save Money, Increase Efficiency, and Eliminate Silos Organizations are looking for ways to save money and be more efficient. With content in many different places, it’s difficult to know where to look for a document and whether the document is the most current version. With Oracle WebCenter, content can be consolidated into one best-of-breed repository that is secure, scalable, and integrated with your business processes and applications. Users can find the content they need, where they need it, and ensure that it is the right content. This session covers content challenges that affect your business; content consolidation that can lead to savings in storage and administration costs and can lower risks; and how companies are realizing savings. ¶ CON8911 - Improve Online Experiences for Customers and Partners with Self-Service Portals Are you able to provide your customers and partners an easy-to-use online self-service experience? Are you processing high-volume transactions and struggling with call center bottlenecks or back-end systems that won’t integrate, causing order delays and customer frustration? Are you looking to target content such as product and service offerings to your end users? This session shares approaches to providing targeted delivery as well as strategies and best practices for transforming your business by providing an intuitive user experience for your customers and partners. ¶ CON6156 - Top 10 Ways to Integrate Oracle WebCenter Content This session covers 10 common ways to integrate Oracle WebCenter Content with other enterprise applications and middleware. It discusses out-of-the-box modules that provide expanded features in Oracle WebCenter Content—such as enterprise search, SOA, and BPEL—as well as developer tools you can use to create custom integrations. The presentation also gives guidance on which integration option may work best in your environment. ¶ HOL10207 - Build an Intranet Portal with Oracle WebCenter In this hands-on lab, you’ll work with Oracle WebCenter Portal and Oracle WebCenter Content to build out an enterprise portal that maximizes the productivity of teams and individual contributors. Using browser-based tools, you’ll manage site resources such as page styles, templates, and navigation. You’ll edit content stored in Oracle WebCenter Content directly from your portal. You’ll also experience the latest features that promote collaboration, social networking, and personal productivity. ¶ CON7817 - Migration to Oracle WebCenter Imaging 11g Customers today continually strive to automate business processes, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. The accounts payable process—which is often distributed in nature, requires many approvals, and generates huge volumes of paper invoices—is automated by many customers. In this session, learn how Oracle and SYSTIME have partnered to help a customer migrate its existing Oracle Imaging and Process Management Release 7.6 to the latest Oracle WebCenter Imaging 11g and integrate it with Oracle’s JD Edwards family of products. ¶ CON8910 - How to Engage Customers Across Web, Mobile, and Social Channels Whether on desktops at the office, on tablets at home, or on mobile phones when on the go, today’s customers are always connected. To engage today’s customers, you need to make the online customer experience connected and consistent across a host of devices and multiple channels, including Web, mobile, and social networks. Managing this multichannel environment can result in lots of headaches without the right tools. Attend this session to learn how Oracle WebCenter Sites solves the challenge of multichannel customer engagement. ¶ HOL10206 - Oracle WebCenter Sites 11g: Transforming the Content Contributor Experience Oracle WebCenter Sites 11g makes it easy for marketers and business users to contribute to and manage Websites with the new visual, contextual, and intuitive Web authoring interface. In this hands-on lab, you will create and manage content for a sports-themed Website, using many of the new and enhanced features of the 11g release. ¶ CON8900 - Building Next-Generation Portals: An Interactive Customer Panel Discussion Social and collaborative technologies have changed how people interact, learn, and collaborate, and providing a modern, social Web presence is imperative to remain competitive in today’s market. Can your business benefit from a more collaborative and interactive portal environment for employees, customers, and partners? Attend this session to hear from Oracle WebCenter Portal customers as they share their strategies and best practices for providing users with a modern experience that adapts to their needs and includes personalized access to content in context. The panel also addresses how customers have benefited from creating next-generation portals by migrating from older portal technologies to Oracle WebCenter Portal. ¶ CON9625 - Taking Control of Oracle WebCenter Security Organizations are increasingly looking to extend their Oracle WebCenter portal for social business, to serve external users and provide seamless access to the right information. In particular, many organizations are extending Oracle WebCenter in a business-to-business scenario requiring secure identification and authorization of business partners and their users. This session focuses on how customers are leveraging, securing, and providing access control to Oracle WebCenter portal and mobile solutions. You will learn best practices and hear real-world examples of how to provide flexible and granular access control for Oracle WebCenter deployments, using Oracle Platform Security Services and Oracle Access Management Suite product offerings. ¶ CON8891 - Extending Social into Enterprise Applications and Business Processes Oracle Social Network is an extensible social platform that enables contextual collaboration within enterprise applications and business processes, providing relevant data from across various enterprise systems in one place. Attend this session to see how an Oracle Social Network customer is integrating multiple applications—such as CRM, HCM, and business processes—into Oracle Social Network and Oracle WebCenter to enable individuals and teams to solve complex cross-organizational business problems more effectively by utilizing the social enterprise. ¶ Thursday, October 4th CON8899 - Becoming a Social Business: Stories from the Front Lines of Change What does it really mean to be a social business? How can you change our organization to embrace social approaches? What pitfalls do you need to avoid? In this lively panel discussion, customer and industry thought leaders in social business explore these topics and more as they share their stories of the good, the bad, and the ugly that can happen when embracing social methods and technologies to improve business success. Using moderated questions and open Q&A from the audience, the panel discusses vital topics such as the critical factors for success, the major issues to avoid, how to gain senior executive support for social efforts, how to handle undesired behavior, and how to measure business impact. It takes a thought-provoking look at becoming a social business from the inside. ¶ CON6851 - Oracle WebCenter and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition to Create Vendor Portals Large manufacturers of grocery items routinely find themselves depending on the inventory management expertise of their wholesalers and distributors. Inventory costs can be managed more efficiently by the manufacturers if they have better insight into the inventory levels of items carried by their distributors. This creates a unique opportunity for distributors and wholesalers to leverage this knowledge into a revenue-generating subscription service. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle WebCenter Portal play a key part in enabling creation of business-managed business intelligence portals for vendors. This session discusses one customer that implemented this by leveraging Oracle WebCenter and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. ¶ CON8879 - Provide a Personalized and Consistent Customer Experience in Your Websites and Portals Your customers engage with your company online in different ways throughout their journey—from prospecting by acquiring information on your corporate Website to transacting through self-service applications on your customer portal—and then the cycle begins again when they look for new products and services. Ensuring that the customer experience is consistent and personalized across online properties—from branding and content to interactions and transactions—can be a daunting task. Oracle WebCenter enables you to speak and interact with your customers with one voice across your Websites and portals by providing an integrated platform for delivery of self-service and engagement that unifies and personalizes the online experience. Learn more in this session. ¶ CON8898 - Land Mines, Potholes, and Dirt Roads: Navigating the Way to ECM Nirvana Ten years ago, people were predicting that by this time in history, we’d be some kind of utopian paperless society. As we all know, we’re not there yet, but are we getting closer? What is keeping companies from driving down the road to enterprise content management bliss? Most people understand that using ECM as a central platform enables organizations to expedite document-centric processes, but most business processes in organizations are still heavily paper-based. Many of these processes could be automated and improved with an ECM platform infrastructure. In this panel discussion, you’ll hear from Oracle WebCenter customers that have already solved some of these challenges as they share their strategies for success and roads to avoid along your journey. ¶ CON8908 - Oracle WebCenter Portal: Creating and Using Content Presenter Templates Oracle WebCenter Portal applications use task flows to display and integrate content stored in the Oracle WebCenter Content server. Among the most flexible task flows is Content Presenter, which renders various types of content on an Oracle WebCenter Portal page. Although Oracle WebCenter Portal comes with a set of predefined Content Presenter templates, developers can create their own templates for specific rendering needs. This session shows the lifecycle of developing Content Presenter task flows, including how to create, package, import, modify at runtime, and use such templates. In addition to simple examples with Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) UI elements to render the content, it shows how to use other UI technologies, CSS files, and JavaScript libraries. ¶ CON8897 - Using Web Experience Management to Drive Online Marketing Success Every year, the online channel becomes more imperative for driving organizational top-line revenue, but for many companies, mastering how to best market their products and services in a fast-evolving online world with high customer expectations for personalized experiences can be a complex proposition. Come to this panel discussion, and hear directly from online marketers how they are succeeding today by using Web experience management to drive marketing success, using capabilities such as targeting and optimization, user-generated content, mobile site publishing, and site visitor personalization to deliver engaging online experiences. ¶ CON8892 - Oracle’s Journey to Social Business Social business is a revolution, one that is causing rapidly accelerating change in how companies and customers engage with one another and how employees work together. Oracle’s goal in becoming a social business is to create a socially connected organization in which working collaboratively across geographical locations, lines of business, and management chains is second nature, enabling innovative solutions to business challenges. We can achieve this by connecting the right people, finding the right content, communicating with the right people, collaborating at the right time, and building the right communities in the right context—all ready in the CLOUD. Attend this session to see how Oracle is transforming itself into a social business. ¶  ------------ If you've read all the way to the end here - we are REALLY looking forward to seeing you in San Francisco.

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  • Upload File to Windows Azure Blob in Chunks through ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript and HTML5

    - by Shaun
    Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/shaunxu/archive/2013/07/01/upload-file-to-windows-azure-blob-in-chunks-through-asp.net.aspxMany people are using Windows Azure Blob Storage to store their data in the cloud. Blob storage provides 99.9% availability with easy-to-use API through .NET SDK and HTTP REST. For example, we can store JavaScript files, images, documents in blob storage when we are building an ASP.NET web application on a Web Role in Windows Azure. Or we can store our VHD files in blob and mount it as a hard drive in our cloud service. If you are familiar with Windows Azure, you should know that there are two kinds of blob: page blob and block blob. The page blob is optimized for random read and write, which is very useful when you need to store VHD files. The block blob is optimized for sequential/chunk read and write, which has more common usage. Since we can upload block blob in blocks through BlockBlob.PutBlock, and them commit them as a whole blob with invoking the BlockBlob.PutBlockList, it is very powerful to upload large files, as we can upload blocks in parallel, and provide pause-resume feature. There are many documents, articles and blog posts described on how to upload a block blob. Most of them are focus on the server side, which means when you had received a big file, stream or binaries, how to upload them into blob storage in blocks through .NET SDK.  But the problem is, how can we upload these large files from client side, for example, a browser. This questioned to me when I was working with a Chinese customer to help them build a network disk production on top of azure. The end users upload their files from the web portal, and then the files will be stored in blob storage from the Web Role. My goal is to find the best way to transform the file from client (end user’s machine) to the server (Web Role) through browser. In this post I will demonstrate and describe what I had done, to upload large file in chunks with high speed, and save them as blocks into Windows Azure Blob Storage.   Traditional Upload, Works with Limitation The simplest way to implement this requirement is to create a web page with a form that contains a file input element and a submit button. 1: @using (Html.BeginForm("About", "Index", FormMethod.Post, new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" })) 2: { 3: <input type="file" name="file" /> 4: <input type="submit" value="upload" /> 5: } And then in the backend controller, we retrieve the whole content of this file and upload it in to the blob storage through .NET SDK. We can split the file in blocks and upload them in parallel and commit. The code had been well blogged in the community. 1: [HttpPost] 2: public ActionResult About(HttpPostedFileBase file) 3: { 4: var container = _client.GetContainerReference("test"); 5: container.CreateIfNotExists(); 6: var blob = container.GetBlockBlobReference(file.FileName); 7: var blockDataList = new Dictionary<string, byte[]>(); 8: using (var stream = file.InputStream) 9: { 10: var blockSizeInKB = 1024; 11: var offset = 0; 12: var index = 0; 13: while (offset < stream.Length) 14: { 15: var readLength = Math.Min(1024 * blockSizeInKB, (int)stream.Length - offset); 16: var blockData = new byte[readLength]; 17: offset += stream.Read(blockData, 0, readLength); 18: blockDataList.Add(Convert.ToBase64String(BitConverter.GetBytes(index)), blockData); 19:  20: index++; 21: } 22: } 23:  24: Parallel.ForEach(blockDataList, (bi) => 25: { 26: blob.PutBlock(bi.Key, new MemoryStream(bi.Value), null); 27: }); 28: blob.PutBlockList(blockDataList.Select(b => b.Key).ToArray()); 29:  30: return RedirectToAction("About"); 31: } This works perfect if we selected an image, a music or a small video to upload. But if I selected a large file, let’s say a 6GB HD-movie, after upload for about few minutes the page will be shown as below and the upload will be terminated. In ASP.NET there is a limitation of request length and the maximized request length is defined in the web.config file. It’s a number which less than about 4GB. So if we want to upload a really big file, we cannot simply implement in this way. Also, in Windows Azure, a cloud service network load balancer will terminate the connection if exceed the timeout period. From my test the timeout looks like 2 - 3 minutes. Hence, when we need to upload a large file we cannot just use the basic HTML elements. Besides the limitation mentioned above, the simple HTML file upload cannot provide rich upload experience such as chunk upload, pause and pause-resume. So we need to find a better way to upload large file from the client to the server.   Upload in Chunks through HTML5 and JavaScript In order to break those limitation mentioned above we will try to upload the large file in chunks. This takes some benefit to us such as - No request size limitation: Since we upload in chunks, we can define the request size for each chunks regardless how big the entire file is. - No timeout problem: The size of chunks are controlled by us, which means we should be able to make sure request for each chunk upload will not exceed the timeout period of both ASP.NET and Windows Azure load balancer. It was a big challenge to upload big file in chunks until we have HTML5. There are some new features and improvements introduced in HTML5 and we will use them to implement our solution.   In HTML5, the File interface had been improved with a new method called “slice”. It can be used to read part of the file by specifying the start byte index and the end byte index. For example if the entire file was 1024 bytes, file.slice(512, 768) will read the part of this file from the 512nd byte to 768th byte, and return a new object of interface called "Blob”, which you can treat as an array of bytes. In fact,  a Blob object represents a file-like object of immutable, raw data. The File interface is based on Blob, inheriting blob functionality and expanding it to support files on the user's system. For more information about the Blob please refer here. File and Blob is very useful to implement the chunk upload. We will use File interface to represent the file the user selected from the browser and then use File.slice to read the file in chunks in the size we wanted. For example, if we wanted to upload a 10MB file with 512KB chunks, then we can read it in 512KB blobs by using File.slice in a loop.   Assuming we have a web page as below. User can select a file, an input box to specify the block size in KB and a button to start upload. 1: <div> 2: <input type="file" id="upload_files" name="files[]" /><br /> 3: Block Size: <input type="number" id="block_size" value="512" name="block_size" />KB<br /> 4: <input type="button" id="upload_button_blob" name="upload" value="upload (blob)" /> 5: </div> Then we can have the JavaScript function to upload the file in chunks when user clicked the button. 1: <script type="text/javascript"> 1: 2: $(function () { 3: $("#upload_button_blob").click(function () { 4: }); 5: });</script> Firstly we need to ensure the client browser supports the interfaces we are going to use. Just try to invoke the File, Blob and FormData from the “window” object. If any of them is “undefined” the condition result will be “false” which means your browser doesn’t support these premium feature and it’s time for you to get your browser updated. FormData is another new feature we are going to use in the future. It could generate a temporary form for us. We will use this interface to create a form with chunk and associated metadata when invoked the service through ajax. 1: $("#upload_button_blob").click(function () { 2: // assert the browser support html5 3: if (window.File && window.Blob && window.FormData) { 4: alert("Your brwoser is awesome, let's rock!"); 5: } 6: else { 7: alert("Oh man plz update to a modern browser before try is cool stuff out."); 8: return; 9: } 10: }); Each browser supports these interfaces by their own implementation and currently the Blob, File and File.slice are supported by Chrome 21, FireFox 13, IE 10, Opera 12 and Safari 5.1 or higher. After that we worked on the files the user selected one by one since in HTML5, user can select multiple files in one file input box. 1: var files = $("#upload_files")[0].files; 2: for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { 3: var file = files[i]; 4: var fileSize = file.size; 5: var fileName = file.name; 6: } Next, we calculated the start index and end index for each chunks based on the size the user specified from the browser. We put them into an array with the file name and the index, which will be used when we upload chunks into Windows Azure Blob Storage as blocks since we need to specify the target blob name and the block index. At the same time we will store the list of all indexes into another variant which will be used to commit blocks into blob in Azure Storage once all chunks had been uploaded successfully. 1: $("#upload_button_blob").click(function () { 2: // assert the browser support html5 3: ... ... 4: // start to upload each files in chunks 5: var files = $("#upload_files")[0].files; 6: for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { 7: var file = files[i]; 8: var fileSize = file.size; 9: var fileName = file.name; 10:  11: // calculate the start and end byte index for each blocks(chunks) 12: // with the index, file name and index list for future using 13: var blockSizeInKB = $("#block_size").val(); 14: var blockSize = blockSizeInKB * 1024; 15: var blocks = []; 16: var offset = 0; 17: var index = 0; 18: var list = ""; 19: while (offset < fileSize) { 20: var start = offset; 21: var end = Math.min(offset + blockSize, fileSize); 22:  23: blocks.push({ 24: name: fileName, 25: index: index, 26: start: start, 27: end: end 28: }); 29: list += index + ","; 30:  31: offset = end; 32: index++; 33: } 34: } 35: }); Now we have all chunks’ information ready. The next step should be upload them one by one to the server side, and at the server side when received a chunk it will upload as a block into Blob Storage, and finally commit them with the index list through BlockBlobClient.PutBlockList. But since all these invokes are ajax calling, which means not synchronized call. So we need to introduce a new JavaScript library to help us coordinate the asynchronize operation, which named “async.js”. You can download this JavaScript library here, and you can find the document here. I will not explain this library too much in this post. We will put all procedures we want to execute as a function array, and pass into the proper function defined in async.js to let it help us to control the execution sequence, in series or in parallel. Hence we will define an array and put the function for chunk upload into this array. 1: $("#upload_button_blob").click(function () { 2: // assert the browser support html5 3: ... ... 4:  5: // start to upload each files in chunks 6: var files = $("#upload_files")[0].files; 7: for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { 8: var file = files[i]; 9: var fileSize = file.size; 10: var fileName = file.name; 11: // calculate the start and end byte index for each blocks(chunks) 12: // with the index, file name and index list for future using 13: ... ... 14:  15: // define the function array and push all chunk upload operation into this array 16: blocks.forEach(function (block) { 17: putBlocks.push(function (callback) { 18: }); 19: }); 20: } 21: }); 22: }); As you can see, I used File.slice method to read each chunks based on the start and end byte index we calculated previously, and constructed a temporary HTML form with the file name, chunk index and chunk data through another new feature in HTML5 named FormData. Then post this form to the backend server through jQuery.ajax. This is the key part of our solution. 1: $("#upload_button_blob").click(function () { 2: // assert the browser support html5 3: ... ... 4: // start to upload each files in chunks 5: var files = $("#upload_files")[0].files; 6: for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { 7: var file = files[i]; 8: var fileSize = file.size; 9: var fileName = file.name; 10: // calculate the start and end byte index for each blocks(chunks) 11: // with the index, file name and index list for future using 12: ... ... 13: // define the function array and push all chunk upload operation into this array 14: blocks.forEach(function (block) { 15: putBlocks.push(function (callback) { 16: // load blob based on the start and end index for each chunks 17: var blob = file.slice(block.start, block.end); 18: // put the file name, index and blob into a temporary from 19: var fd = new FormData(); 20: fd.append("name", block.name); 21: fd.append("index", block.index); 22: fd.append("file", blob); 23: // post the form to backend service (asp.net mvc controller action) 24: $.ajax({ 25: url: "/Home/UploadInFormData", 26: data: fd, 27: processData: false, 28: contentType: "multipart/form-data", 29: type: "POST", 30: success: function (result) { 31: if (!result.success) { 32: alert(result.error); 33: } 34: callback(null, block.index); 35: } 36: }); 37: }); 38: }); 39: } 40: }); Then we will invoke these functions one by one by using the async.js. And once all functions had been executed successfully I invoked another ajax call to the backend service to commit all these chunks (blocks) as the blob in Windows Azure Storage. 1: $("#upload_button_blob").click(function () { 2: // assert the browser support html5 3: ... ... 4: // start to upload each files in chunks 5: var files = $("#upload_files")[0].files; 6: for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { 7: var file = files[i]; 8: var fileSize = file.size; 9: var fileName = file.name; 10: // calculate the start and end byte index for each blocks(chunks) 11: // with the index, file name and index list for future using 12: ... ... 13: // define the function array and push all chunk upload operation into this array 14: ... ... 15: // invoke the functions one by one 16: // then invoke the commit ajax call to put blocks into blob in azure storage 17: async.series(putBlocks, function (error, result) { 18: var data = { 19: name: fileName, 20: list: list 21: }; 22: $.post("/Home/Commit", data, function (result) { 23: if (!result.success) { 24: alert(result.error); 25: } 26: else { 27: alert("done!"); 28: } 29: }); 30: }); 31: } 32: }); That’s all in the client side. The outline of our logic would be - Calculate the start and end byte index for each chunks based on the block size. - Defined the functions of reading the chunk form file and upload the content to the backend service through ajax. - Execute the functions defined in previous step with “async.js”. - Commit the chunks by invoking the backend service in Windows Azure Storage finally.   Save Chunks as Blocks into Blob Storage In above we finished the client size JavaScript code. It uploaded the file in chunks to the backend service which we are going to implement in this step. We will use ASP.NET MVC as our backend service, and it will receive the chunks, upload into Windows Azure Bob Storage in blocks, then finally commit as one blob. As in the client side we uploaded chunks by invoking the ajax call to the URL "/Home/UploadInFormData", I created a new action under the Index controller and it only accepts HTTP POST request. 1: [HttpPost] 2: public JsonResult UploadInFormData() 3: { 4: var error = string.Empty; 5: try 6: { 7: } 8: catch (Exception e) 9: { 10: error = e.ToString(); 11: } 12:  13: return new JsonResult() 14: { 15: Data = new 16: { 17: success = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(error), 18: error = error 19: } 20: }; 21: } Then I retrieved the file name, index and the chunk content from the Request.Form object, which was passed from our client side. And then, used the Windows Azure SDK to create a blob container (in this case we will use the container named “test”.) and create a blob reference with the blob name (same as the file name). Then uploaded the chunk as a block of this blob with the index, since in Blob Storage each block must have an index (ID) associated with so that finally we can put all blocks as one blob by specifying their block ID list. 1: [HttpPost] 2: public JsonResult UploadInFormData() 3: { 4: var error = string.Empty; 5: try 6: { 7: var name = Request.Form["name"]; 8: var index = int.Parse(Request.Form["index"]); 9: var file = Request.Files[0]; 10: var id = Convert.ToBase64String(BitConverter.GetBytes(index)); 11:  12: var container = _client.GetContainerReference("test"); 13: container.CreateIfNotExists(); 14: var blob = container.GetBlockBlobReference(name); 15: blob.PutBlock(id, file.InputStream, null); 16: } 17: catch (Exception e) 18: { 19: error = e.ToString(); 20: } 21:  22: return new JsonResult() 23: { 24: Data = new 25: { 26: success = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(error), 27: error = error 28: } 29: }; 30: } Next, I created another action to commit the blocks into blob once all chunks had been uploaded. Similarly, I retrieved the blob name from the Request.Form. I also retrieved the chunks ID list, which is the block ID list from the Request.Form in a string format, split them as a list, then invoked the BlockBlob.PutBlockList method. After that our blob will be shown in the container and ready to be download. 1: [HttpPost] 2: public JsonResult Commit() 3: { 4: var error = string.Empty; 5: try 6: { 7: var name = Request.Form["name"]; 8: var list = Request.Form["list"]; 9: var ids = list 10: .Split(',') 11: .Where(id => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(id)) 12: .Select(id => Convert.ToBase64String(BitConverter.GetBytes(int.Parse(id)))) 13: .ToArray(); 14:  15: var container = _client.GetContainerReference("test"); 16: container.CreateIfNotExists(); 17: var blob = container.GetBlockBlobReference(name); 18: blob.PutBlockList(ids); 19: } 20: catch (Exception e) 21: { 22: error = e.ToString(); 23: } 24:  25: return new JsonResult() 26: { 27: Data = new 28: { 29: success = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(error), 30: error = error 31: } 32: }; 33: } Now we finished all code we need. The whole process of uploading would be like this below. Below is the full client side JavaScript code. 1: <script type="text/javascript" src="~/Scripts/async.js"></script> 2: <script type="text/javascript"> 3: $(function () { 4: $("#upload_button_blob").click(function () { 5: // assert the browser support html5 6: if (window.File && window.Blob && window.FormData) { 7: alert("Your brwoser is awesome, let's rock!"); 8: } 9: else { 10: alert("Oh man plz update to a modern browser before try is cool stuff out."); 11: return; 12: } 13:  14: // start to upload each files in chunks 15: var files = $("#upload_files")[0].files; 16: for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { 17: var file = files[i]; 18: var fileSize = file.size; 19: var fileName = file.name; 20:  21: // calculate the start and end byte index for each blocks(chunks) 22: // with the index, file name and index list for future using 23: var blockSizeInKB = $("#block_size").val(); 24: var blockSize = blockSizeInKB * 1024; 25: var blocks = []; 26: var offset = 0; 27: var index = 0; 28: var list = ""; 29: while (offset < fileSize) { 30: var start = offset; 31: var end = Math.min(offset + blockSize, fileSize); 32:  33: blocks.push({ 34: name: fileName, 35: index: index, 36: start: start, 37: end: end 38: }); 39: list += index + ","; 40:  41: offset = end; 42: index++; 43: } 44:  45: // define the function array and push all chunk upload operation into this array 46: var putBlocks = []; 47: blocks.forEach(function (block) { 48: putBlocks.push(function (callback) { 49: // load blob based on the start and end index for each chunks 50: var blob = file.slice(block.start, block.end); 51: // put the file name, index and blob into a temporary from 52: var fd = new FormData(); 53: fd.append("name", block.name); 54: fd.append("index", block.index); 55: fd.append("file", blob); 56: // post the form to backend service (asp.net mvc controller action) 57: $.ajax({ 58: url: "/Home/UploadInFormData", 59: data: fd, 60: processData: false, 61: contentType: "multipart/form-data", 62: type: "POST", 63: success: function (result) { 64: if (!result.success) { 65: alert(result.error); 66: } 67: callback(null, block.index); 68: } 69: }); 70: }); 71: }); 72:  73: // invoke the functions one by one 74: // then invoke the commit ajax call to put blocks into blob in azure storage 75: async.series(putBlocks, function (error, result) { 76: var data = { 77: name: fileName, 78: list: list 79: }; 80: $.post("/Home/Commit", data, function (result) { 81: if (!result.success) { 82: alert(result.error); 83: } 84: else { 85: alert("done!"); 86: } 87: }); 88: }); 89: } 90: }); 91: }); 92: </script> And below is the full ASP.NET MVC controller code. 1: public class HomeController : Controller 2: { 3: private CloudStorageAccount _account; 4: private CloudBlobClient _client; 5:  6: public HomeController() 7: : base() 8: { 9: _account = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("DataConnectionString")); 10: _client = _account.CreateCloudBlobClient(); 11: } 12:  13: public ActionResult Index() 14: { 15: ViewBag.Message = "Modify this template to jump-start your ASP.NET MVC application."; 16:  17: return View(); 18: } 19:  20: [HttpPost] 21: public JsonResult UploadInFormData() 22: { 23: var error = string.Empty; 24: try 25: { 26: var name = Request.Form["name"]; 27: var index = int.Parse(Request.Form["index"]); 28: var file = Request.Files[0]; 29: var id = Convert.ToBase64String(BitConverter.GetBytes(index)); 30:  31: var container = _client.GetContainerReference("test"); 32: container.CreateIfNotExists(); 33: var blob = container.GetBlockBlobReference(name); 34: blob.PutBlock(id, file.InputStream, null); 35: } 36: catch (Exception e) 37: { 38: error = e.ToString(); 39: } 40:  41: return new JsonResult() 42: { 43: Data = new 44: { 45: success = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(error), 46: error = error 47: } 48: }; 49: } 50:  51: [HttpPost] 52: public JsonResult Commit() 53: { 54: var error = string.Empty; 55: try 56: { 57: var name = Request.Form["name"]; 58: var list = Request.Form["list"]; 59: var ids = list 60: .Split(',') 61: .Where(id => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(id)) 62: .Select(id => Convert.ToBase64String(BitConverter.GetBytes(int.Parse(id)))) 63: .ToArray(); 64:  65: var container = _client.GetContainerReference("test"); 66: container.CreateIfNotExists(); 67: var blob = container.GetBlockBlobReference(name); 68: blob.PutBlockList(ids); 69: } 70: catch (Exception e) 71: { 72: error = e.ToString(); 73: } 74:  75: return new JsonResult() 76: { 77: Data = new 78: { 79: success = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(error), 80: error = error 81: } 82: }; 83: } 84: } And if we selected a file from the browser we will see our application will upload chunks in the size we specified to the server through ajax call in background, and then commit all chunks in one blob. Then we can find the blob in our Windows Azure Blob Storage.   Optimized by Parallel Upload In previous example we just uploaded our file in chunks. This solved the problem that ASP.NET MVC request content size limitation as well as the Windows Azure load balancer timeout. But it might introduce the performance problem since we uploaded chunks in sequence. In order to improve the upload performance we could modify our client side code a bit to make the upload operation invoked in parallel. The good news is that, “async.js” library provides the parallel execution function. If you remembered the code we invoke the service to upload chunks, it utilized “async.series” which means all functions will be executed in sequence. Now we will change this code to “async.parallel”. This will invoke all functions in parallel. 1: $("#upload_button_blob").click(function () { 2: // assert the browser support html5 3: ... ... 4: // start to upload each files in chunks 5: var files = $("#upload_files")[0].files; 6: for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { 7: var file = files[i]; 8: var fileSize = file.size; 9: var fileName = file.name; 10: // calculate the start and end byte index for each blocks(chunks) 11: // with the index, file name and index list for future using 12: ... ... 13: // define the function array and push all chunk upload operation into this array 14: ... ... 15: // invoke the functions one by one 16: // then invoke the commit ajax call to put blocks into blob in azure storage 17: async.parallel(putBlocks, function (error, result) { 18: var data = { 19: name: fileName, 20: list: list 21: }; 22: $.post("/Home/Commit", data, function (result) { 23: if (!result.success) { 24: alert(result.error); 25: } 26: else { 27: alert("done!"); 28: } 29: }); 30: }); 31: } 32: }); In this way all chunks will be uploaded to the server side at the same time to maximize the bandwidth usage. This should work if the file was not very large and the chunk size was not very small. But for large file this might introduce another problem that too many ajax calls are sent to the server at the same time. So the best solution should be, upload the chunks in parallel with maximum concurrency limitation. The code below specified the concurrency limitation to 4, which means at the most only 4 ajax calls could be invoked at the same time. 1: $("#upload_button_blob").click(function () { 2: // assert the browser support html5 3: ... ... 4: // start to upload each files in chunks 5: var files = $("#upload_files")[0].files; 6: for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { 7: var file = files[i]; 8: var fileSize = file.size; 9: var fileName = file.name; 10: // calculate the start and end byte index for each blocks(chunks) 11: // with the index, file name and index list for future using 12: ... ... 13: // define the function array and push all chunk upload operation into this array 14: ... ... 15: // invoke the functions one by one 16: // then invoke the commit ajax call to put blocks into blob in azure storage 17: async.parallelLimit(putBlocks, 4, function (error, result) { 18: var data = { 19: name: fileName, 20: list: list 21: }; 22: $.post("/Home/Commit", data, function (result) { 23: if (!result.success) { 24: alert(result.error); 25: } 26: else { 27: alert("done!"); 28: } 29: }); 30: }); 31: } 32: });   Summary In this post we discussed how to upload files in chunks to the backend service and then upload them into Windows Azure Blob Storage in blocks. We focused on the frontend side and leverage three new feature introduced in HTML 5 which are - File.slice: Read part of the file by specifying the start and end byte index. - Blob: File-like interface which contains the part of the file content. - FormData: Temporary form element that we can pass the chunk alone with some metadata to the backend service. Then we discussed the performance consideration of chunk uploading. Sequence upload cannot provide maximized upload speed, but the unlimited parallel upload might crash the browser and server if too many chunks. So we finally came up with the solution to upload chunks in parallel with the concurrency limitation. We also demonstrated how to utilize “async.js” JavaScript library to help us control the asynchronize call and the parallel limitation.   Regarding the chunk size and the parallel limitation value there is no “best” value. You need to test vary composition and find out the best one for your particular scenario. It depends on the local bandwidth, client machine cores and the server side (Windows Azure Cloud Service Virtual Machine) cores, memory and bandwidth. Below is one of my performance test result. The client machine was Windows 8 IE 10 with 4 cores. I was using Microsoft Cooperation Network. The web site was hosted on Windows Azure China North data center (in Beijing) with one small web role (1.7GB 1 core CPU, 1.75GB memory with 100Mbps bandwidth). The test cases were - Chunk size: 512KB, 1MB, 2MB, 4MB. - Upload Mode: Sequence, parallel (unlimited), parallel with limit (4 threads, 8 threads). - Chunk Format: base64 string, binaries. - Target file: 100MB. - Each case was tested 3 times. Below is the test result chart. Some thoughts, but not guidance or best practice: - Parallel gets better performance than series. - No significant performance improvement between parallel 4 threads and 8 threads. - Transform with binaries provides better performance than base64. - In all cases, chunk size in 1MB - 2MB gets better performance.   Hope this helps, Shaun All documents and related graphics, codes are provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind. Copyright © Shaun Ziyan Xu. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.

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  • Towards Database Continuous Delivery – What Next after Continuous Integration? A Checklist

    - by Ben Rees
    .dbd-banner p{ font-size:0.75em; padding:0 0 10px; margin:0 } .dbd-banner p span{ color:#675C6D; } .dbd-banner p:last-child{ padding:0; } @media ALL and (max-width:640px){ .dbd-banner{ background:#f0f0f0; padding:5px; color:#333; margin-top: 5px; } } -- Database delivery patterns & practices STAGE 4 AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT If you’ve been fortunate enough to get to the stage where you’ve implemented some sort of continuous integration process for your database updates, then hopefully you’re seeing the benefits of that investment – constant feedback on changes your devs are making, advanced warning of data loss (prior to the production release on Saturday night!), a nice suite of automated tests to check business logic, so you know it’s going to work when it goes live, and so on. But what next? What can you do to improve your delivery process further, moving towards a full continuous delivery process for your database? In this article I describe some of the issues you might need to tackle on the next stage of this journey, and how to plan to overcome those obstacles before they appear. Our Database Delivery Learning Program consists of four stages, really three – source controlling a database, running continuous integration processes, then how to set up automated deployment (the middle stage is split in two – basic and advanced continuous integration, making four stages in total). If you’ve managed to work through the first three of these stages – source control, basic, then advanced CI, then you should have a solid change management process set up where, every time one of your team checks in a change to your database (whether schema or static reference data), this change gets fully tested automatically by your CI server. But this is only part of the story. Great, we know that our updates work, that the upgrade process works, that the upgrade isn’t going to wipe our 4Tb of production data with a single DROP TABLE. But – how do you get this (fully tested) release live? Continuous delivery means being always ready to release your software at any point in time. There’s a significant gap between your latest version being tested, and it being easily releasable. Just a quick note on terminology – there’s a nice piece here from Atlassian on the difference between continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment. This piece also gives a nice description of the benefits of continuous delivery. These benefits have been summed up by Jez Humble at Thoughtworks as: “Continuous delivery is a set of principles and practices to reduce the cost, time, and risk of delivering incremental changes to users” There’s another really useful piece here on Simple-Talk about the need for continuous delivery and how it applies to the database written by Phil Factor – specifically the extra needs and complexities of implementing a full CD solution for the database (compared to just implementing CD for, say, a web app). So, hopefully you’re convinced of moving on the the next stage! The next step after CI is to get some sort of automated deployment (or “release management”) process set up. But what should I do next? What do I need to plan and think about for getting my automated database deployment process set up? Can’t I just install one of the many release management tools available and hey presto, I’m ready! If only it were that simple. Below I list some of the areas that it’s worth spending a little time on, where a little planning and prep could go a long way. It’s also worth pointing out, that this should really be an evolving process. Depending on your starting point of course, it can be a long journey from your current setup to a full continuous delivery pipeline. If you’ve got a CI mechanism in place, you’re certainly a long way down that path. Nevertheless, we’d recommend evolving your process incrementally. Pages 157 and 129-141 of the book on Continuous Delivery (by Jez Humble and Dave Farley) have some great guidance on building up a pipeline incrementally: http://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912 For now, in this post, we’ll look at the following areas for your checklist: You and Your Team Environments The Deployment Process Rollback and Recovery Development Practices You and Your Team It’s a cliché in the DevOps community that “It’s not all about processes and tools, really it’s all about a culture”. As stated in this DevOps report from Puppet Labs: “DevOps processes and tooling contribute to high performance, but these practices alone aren’t enough to achieve organizational success. The most common barriers to DevOps adoption are cultural: lack of manager or team buy-in, or the value of DevOps isn’t understood outside of a specific group”. Like most clichés, there’s truth in there – if you want to set up a database continuous delivery process, you need to get your boss, your department, your company (if relevant) onside. Why? Because it’s an investment with the benefits coming way down the line. But the benefits are huge – for HP, in the book A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware, these are summarized as: -2008 to present: overall development costs reduced by 40% -Number of programs under development increased by 140% -Development costs per program down 78% -Firmware resources now driving innovation increased by a factor of 8 (from 5% working on new features to 40% But what does this mean? It means that, when moving to the next stage, to make that extra investment in automating your deployment process, it helps a lot if everyone is convinced that this is a good thing. That they understand the benefits of automated deployment and are willing to make the effort to transform to a new way of working. Incidentally, if you’re ever struggling to convince someone of the value I’d strongly recommend just buying them a copy of this book – a great read, and a very practical guide to how it can really work at a large org. I’ve spoken to many customers who have implemented database CI who describe their deployment process as “The point where automation breaks down. Up to that point, the CI process runs, untouched by human hand, but as soon as that’s finished we revert to manual.” This deployment process can involve, for example, a DBA manually comparing an environment (say, QA) to production, creating the upgrade scripts, reading through them, checking them against an Excel document emailed to him/her the night before, turning to page 29 in his/her notebook to double-check how replication is switched off and on for deployments, and so on and so on. Painful, error-prone and lengthy. But the point is, if this is something like your deployment process, telling your DBA “We’re changing everything you do and your toolset next week, to automate most of your role – that’s okay isn’t it?” isn’t likely to go down well. There’s some work here to bring him/her onside – to explain what you’re doing, why there will still be control of the deployment process and so on. Or of course, if you’re the DBA looking after this process, you have to do a similar job in reverse. You may have researched and worked out how you’d like to change your methodology to start automating your painful release process, but do the dev team know this? What if they have to start producing different artifacts for you? Will they be happy with this? Worth talking to them, to find out. As well as talking to your DBA/dev team, the other group to get involved before implementation is your manager. And possibly your manager’s manager too. As mentioned, unless there’s buy-in “from the top”, you’re going to hit problems when the implementation starts to get rocky (and what tool/process implementations don’t get rocky?!). You need to have support from someone senior in your organisation – someone you can turn to when you need help with a delayed implementation, lack of resources or lack of progress. Actions: Get your DBA involved (or whoever looks after live deployments) and discuss what you’re planning to do or, if you’re the DBA yourself, get the dev team up-to-speed with your plans, Get your boss involved too and make sure he/she is bought in to the investment. Environments Where are you going to deploy to? And really this question is – what environments do you want set up for your deployment pipeline? Assume everyone has “Production”, but do you have a QA environment? Dedicated development environments for each dev? Proper pre-production? I’ve seen every setup under the sun, and there is often a big difference between “What we want, to do continuous delivery properly” and “What we’re currently stuck with”. Some of these differences are: What we want What we’ve got Each developer with their own dedicated database environment A single shared “development” environment, used by everyone at once An Integration box used to test the integration of all check-ins via the CI process, along with a full suite of unit-tests running on that machine In fact if you have a CI process running, you’re likely to have some sort of integration server running (even if you don’t call it that!). Whether you have a full suite of unit tests running is a different question… Separate QA environment used explicitly for manual testing prior to release “We just test on the dev environments, or maybe pre-production” A proper pre-production (or “staging”) box that matches production as closely as possible Hopefully a pre-production box of some sort. But does it match production closely!? A production environment reproducible from source control A production box which has drifted significantly from anything in source control The big question is – how much time and effort are you going to invest in fixing these issues? In reality this just involves figuring out which new databases you’re going to create and where they’ll be hosted – VMs? Cloud-based? What about size/data issues – what data are you going to include on dev environments? Does it need to be masked to protect access to production data? And often the amount of work here really depends on whether you’re working on a new, greenfield project, or trying to update an existing, brownfield application. There’s a world if difference between starting from scratch with 4 or 5 clean environments (reproducible from source control of course!), and trying to re-purpose and tweak a set of existing databases, with all of their surrounding processes and quirks. But for a proper release management process, ideally you have: Dedicated development databases, An Integration server used for testing continuous integration and running unit tests. [NB: This is the point at which deployments are automatic, without human intervention. Each deployment after this point is a one-click (but human) action], QA – QA engineers use a one-click deployment process to automatically* deploy chosen releases to QA for testing, Pre-production. The environment you use to test the production release process, Production. * A note on the use of the word “automatic” – when carrying out automated deployments this does not mean that the deployment is happening without human intervention (i.e. that something is just deploying over and over again). It means that the process of carrying out the deployment is automatic in that it’s not a person manually running through a checklist or set of actions. The deployment still requires a single-click from a user. Actions: Get your environments set up and ready, Set access permissions appropriately, Make sure everyone understands what the environments will be used for (it’s not a “free-for-all” with all environments to be accessed, played with and changed by development). The Deployment Process As described earlier, most existing database deployment processes are pretty manual. The following is a description of a process we hear very often when we ask customers “How do your database changes get live? How does your manual process work?” Check pre-production matches production (use a schema compare tool, like SQL Compare). Sometimes done by taking a backup from production and restoring in to pre-prod, Again, use a schema compare tool to find the differences between the latest version of the database ready to go live (i.e. what the team have been developing). This generates a script, User (generally, the DBA), reviews the script. This often involves manually checking updates against a spreadsheet or similar, Run the script on pre-production, and check there are no errors (i.e. it upgrades pre-production to what you hoped), If all working, run the script on production.* * this assumes there’s no problem with production drifting away from pre-production in the interim time period (i.e. someone has hacked something in to the production box without going through the proper change management process). This difference could undermine the validity of your pre-production deployment test. Red Gate is currently working on a free tool to detect this problem – sign up here at www.sqllighthouse.com, if you’re interested in testing early versions. There are several variations on this process – some better, some much worse! How do you automate this? In particular, step 3 – surely you can’t automate a DBA checking through a script, that everything is in order!? The key point here is to plan what you want in your new deployment process. There are so many options. At one extreme, pure continuous deployment – whenever a dev checks something in to source control, the CI process runs (including extensive and thorough testing!), before the deployment process keys in and automatically deploys that change to the live box. Not for the faint hearted – and really not something we recommend. At the other extreme, you might be more comfortable with a semi-automated process – the pre-production/production matching process is automated (with an error thrown if these environments don’t match), followed by a manual intervention, allowing for script approval by the DBA. One he/she clicks “Okay, I’m happy for that to go live”, the latter stages automatically take the script through to live. And anything in between of course – and other variations. But we’d strongly recommended sitting down with a whiteboard and your team, and spending a couple of hours mapping out “What do we do now?”, “What do we actually want?”, “What will satisfy our needs for continuous delivery, but still maintaining some sort of continuous control over the process?” NB: Most of what we’re discussing here is about production deployments. It’s important to note that you will also need to map out a deployment process for earlier environments (for example QA). However, these are likely to be less onerous, and many customers opt for a much more automated process for these boxes. Actions: Sit down with your team and a whiteboard, and draw out the answers to the questions above for your production deployments – “What do we do now?”, “What do we actually want?”, “What will satisfy our needs for continuous delivery, but still maintaining some sort of continuous control over the process?” Repeat for earlier environments (QA and so on). Rollback and Recovery If only every deployment went according to plan! Unfortunately they don’t – and when things go wrong, you need a rollback or recovery plan for what you’re going to do in that situation. Once you move in to a more automated database deployment process, you’re far more likely to be deploying more frequently than before. No longer once every 6 months, maybe now once per week, or even daily. Hence the need for a quick rollback or recovery process becomes paramount, and should be planned for. NB: These are mainly scenarios for handling rollbacks after the transaction has been committed. If a failure is detected during the transaction, the whole transaction can just be rolled back, no problem. There are various options, which we’ll explore in subsequent articles, things like: Immediately restore from backup, Have a pre-tested rollback script (remembering that really this is a “roll-forward” script – there’s not really such a thing as a rollback script for a database!) Have fallback environments – for example, using a blue-green deployment pattern. Different options have pros and cons – some are easier to set up, some require more investment in infrastructure; and of course some work better than others (the key issue with using backups, is loss of the interim transaction data that has been added between the failed deployment and the restore). The best mechanism will be primarily dependent on how your application works and how much you need a cast-iron failsafe mechanism. Actions: Work out an appropriate rollback strategy based on how your application and business works, your appetite for investment and requirements for a completely failsafe process. Development Practices This is perhaps the more difficult area for people to tackle. The process by which you can deploy database updates is actually intrinsically linked with the patterns and practices used to develop that database and linked application. So you need to decide whether you want to implement some changes to the way your developers actually develop the database (particularly schema changes) to make the deployment process easier. A good example is the pattern “Branch by abstraction”. Explained nicely here, by Martin Fowler, this is a process that can be used to make significant database changes (e.g. splitting a table) in a step-wise manner so that you can always roll back, without data loss – by making incremental updates to the database backward compatible. Slides 103-108 of the following slidedeck, from Niek Bartholomeus explain the process: https://speakerdeck.com/niekbartho/orchestration-in-meatspace As these slides show, by making a significant schema change in multiple steps – where each step can be rolled back without any loss of new data – this affords the release team the opportunity to have zero-downtime deployments with considerably less stress (because if an increment goes wrong, they can roll back easily). There are plenty more great patterns that can be implemented – the book Refactoring Databases, by Scott Ambler and Pramod Sadalage is a great read, if this is a direction you want to go in: http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Databases-Evolutionary-paperback-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321774515 But the question is – how much of this investment are you willing to make? How often are you making significant schema changes that would require these best practices? Again, there’s a difference here between migrating old projects and starting afresh – with the latter it’s much easier to instigate best practice from the start. Actions: For your business, work out how far down the path you want to go, amending your database development patterns to “best practice”. It’s a trade-off between implementing quality processes, and the necessity to do so (depending on how often you make complex changes). Socialise these changes with your development group. No-one likes having “best practice” changes imposed on them, so good to introduce these ideas and the rationale behind them early.   Summary The next stages of implementing a continuous delivery pipeline for your database changes (once you have CI up and running) require a little pre-planning, if you want to get the most out of the work, and for the implementation to go smoothly. We’ve covered some of the checklist of areas to consider – mainly in the areas of “Getting the team ready for the changes that are coming” and “Planning our your pipeline, environments, patterns and practices for development”, though there will be more detail, depending on where you’re coming from – and where you want to get to. This article is part of our database delivery patterns & practices series on Simple Talk. Find more articles for version control, automated testing, continuous integration & deployment.

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  • Jframe using multiple classes?

    - by user2945880
    and im trying to make it so it can show multiple classes at once Jframe: import javax.swing.JFrame; import java.awt.BorderLayout; public class Concert { public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame frame = new JFrame(); frame.setSize(1000, 800); frame.setTitle("Concert!"); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); Concertbackground component = new Concertbackground(); BandComponent component1 = new BandComponent(); frame.add(component, BorderLayout.NORTH); frame.add(component1, BorderLayout.CENTER); frame.setVisible(true); } } These are the two classes mentioned in the Jframe: import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Graphics; import java.awt.Graphics2D; import java.awt.Rectangle; import java.awt.geom.Ellipse2D; import java.awt.geom.Line2D; import javax.swing.JComponent; import java.awt.Polygon; /* BandComponent.java Justin Walker 10/27/13 */ public class BandComponent extends JComponent { public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { // Recover Graphics2D Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g; int xScale = 250; int yScale = 100; int x = 343; int y = 343; //singer Polygon sing = new Polygon(); sing.addPoint(667 ,208 + xScale); sing.addPoint(676,213 + xScale); sing.addPoint(678,217 + xScale); sing.addPoint(682,221 + xScale); sing.addPoint(681,224 + xScale); sing.addPoint(680,231 + xScale); sing.addPoint(676,242 + xScale); sing.addPoint(672,244 + xScale); sing.addPoint(672,250 + xScale); sing.addPoint(682,248 + xScale); sing.addPoint(713,244 + xScale); sing.addPoint(734,247 + xScale); sing.addPoint(750,247 + xScale); sing.addPoint(794,232 + xScale); sing.addPoint(800,231 + xScale); sing.addPoint(801,223 + xScale); sing.addPoint(807,219 + xScale); sing.addPoint(806,221 + xScale); sing.addPoint(806,229 + xScale); sing.addPoint(818,222 + xScale); sing.addPoint(820,223 + xScale); sing.addPoint(825,227 + xScale); sing.addPoint(825,240 + xScale); sing.addPoint(817,243 + xScale); sing.addPoint(807,245 + xScale); sing.addPoint(803,247 + xScale); sing.addPoint(801,252 + xScale); sing.addPoint(781,257 + xScale); sing.addPoint(762,264 + xScale); sing.addPoint(734,271 + xScale); sing.addPoint(701,286 + xScale); sing.addPoint(691,296 + xScale); sing.addPoint(693,311 + xScale); sing.addPoint(690,317 + xScale); sing.addPoint(690,335 + xScale); sing.addPoint(691,339 + xScale); sing.addPoint(689,343 + xScale); sing.addPoint(712,382 + xScale); sing.addPoint(725,400 + xScale); sing.addPoint(731,418 + xScale); sing.addPoint(731,428 + xScale); sing.addPoint(738,454 + xScale); sing.addPoint(741,460 + xScale); sing.addPoint(746,468 + xScale); sing.addPoint(766,468 + xScale); sing.addPoint(771,481 + xScale);// sing.addPoint(723,482 + xScale); sing.addPoint(720,462 + xScale); sing.addPoint(718,454 + xScale); sing.addPoint(709,436 + xScale); sing.addPoint(703,436 + xScale); sing.addPoint(699,417 + xScale); sing.addPoint(686,396 + xScale); sing.addPoint(678,395 + xScale); sing.addPoint(676,437 + xScale); sing.addPoint(673,439 + xScale); sing.addPoint(638,435 + xScale); sing.addPoint(640,398 + xScale); sing.addPoint(634,410 + xScale); sing.addPoint(625,416 + xScale); sing.addPoint(622,436 + xScale); sing.addPoint(622,443 + xScale); sing.addPoint(615,447 + xScale); sing.addPoint(609,456 + xScale); sing.addPoint(606,481 + xScale);// sing.addPoint(557,481 + xScale); sing.addPoint(560,467 + xScale); sing.addPoint(579,467 + xScale); sing.addPoint(587,464 + xScale); sing.addPoint(593,452 + xScale); sing.addPoint(594,441 + xScale); sing.addPoint(592,434 + xScale); sing.addPoint(600,416 + xScale); sing.addPoint(608,405 + xScale); sing.addPoint(609,394 + xScale); sing.addPoint(617,376 + xScale); sing.addPoint(619,363 + xScale); sing.addPoint(632,334 + xScale); sing.addPoint(637,324 + xScale); sing.addPoint(635,314 + xScale); sing.addPoint(639,296 + xScale); sing.addPoint(627,285 + xScale); sing.addPoint(600,279 + xScale); sing.addPoint(582,278 + xScale); sing.addPoint(575,275 + xScale); sing.addPoint(546,256 + xScale); sing.addPoint(536,252 + xScale); sing.addPoint(533,350 + xScale); sing.addPoint(534,361 + xScale); sing.addPoint(532,367 + xScale); sing.addPoint(529,369 + xScale); sing.addPoint(524,363 + xScale); sing.addPoint(525,355 + xScale); sing.addPoint(531,254 + xScale); sing.addPoint(527,249 + xScale); sing.addPoint(527,242 + xScale); sing.addPoint(529,237 + xScale); sing.addPoint(532,237 + xScale); sing.addPoint(536,178 + xScale); sing.addPoint(534,129 + xScale); sing.addPoint(535,123 + xScale); sing.addPoint(541,120 + xScale); sing.addPoint(545,123 + xScale); sing.addPoint(547,131 + xScale); sing.addPoint(545,173 + xScale); sing.addPoint(538,233 + xScale); sing.addPoint(549,239 + xScale); sing.addPoint(558,241 + xScale); sing.addPoint(585,257 + xScale); sing.addPoint(599,257 + xScale); sing.addPoint(627,254 + xScale); sing.addPoint(647,251 + xScale); sing.addPoint(653,248 + xScale); sing.addPoint(652,235 + xScale); sing.addPoint(648,226 + xScale); sing.addPoint(652,218 + xScale); sing.addPoint(661,212 + xScale); g2.setColor(Color.black); g2.fill(sing); g2.draw(sing); //guitar Polygon guitar = new Polygon(); guitar.addPoint(148,28); guitar.addPoint(158,32); guitar.addPoint(164,38); guitar.addPoint(168,46); guitar.addPoint(169,52); guitar.addPoint(167,60); guitar.addPoint(164,65); guitar.addPoint(165,70); guitar.addPoint(161,76); guitar.addPoint(158,92); guitar.addPoint(162,97); guitar.addPoint(161,102); guitar.addPoint(158,106); guitar.addPoint(155,108); guitar.addPoint(151,127); guitar.addPoint(152,133); guitar.addPoint(155,137); guitar.addPoint(151,146); guitar.addPoint(153,147); guitar.addPoint(160,142); guitar.addPoint(162,133); guitar.addPoint(162,123); guitar.addPoint(161,113); guitar.addPoint(162,110); guitar.addPoint(164,117); guitar.addPoint(169,131); guitar.addPoint(171,144); guitar.addPoint(170,159); guitar.addPoint(166,167); guitar.addPoint(166,171); guitar.addPoint(174,174); guitar.addPoint(183,184); guitar.addPoint(191,195); guitar.addPoint(196,198); guitar.addPoint(198,200); guitar.addPoint(199,210); guitar.addPoint(211,225); guitar.addPoint(212,233); guitar.addPoint(220,248); guitar.addPoint(233,260); guitar.addPoint(245,266); guitar.addPoint(248,268); guitar.addPoint(249,277); guitar.addPoint(205,275); guitar.addPoint(204,262); guitar.addPoint(187,238); guitar.addPoint(178,224); guitar.addPoint(177,216); guitar.addPoint(156,201); guitar.addPoint(146,197); guitar.addPoint(134,211); guitar.addPoint(128,229); guitar.addPoint(125,244);// guitar.addPoint(121,246); guitar.addPoint(107,248); guitar.addPoint(100,252); guitar.addPoint(97,258); guitar.addPoint(96,253); guitar.addPoint(89,258); guitar.addPoint(65,267); guitar.addPoint(63,274); guitar.addPoint(64,283); guitar.addPoint(41,282); guitar.addPoint(44,270); guitar.addPoint(47,264); guitar.addPoint(51,255); guitar.addPoint(73,238); guitar.addPoint(79,228); guitar.addPoint(97,222); guitar.addPoint(101,204); guitar.addPoint(102,181); guitar.addPoint(100,170); guitar.addPoint(95,161); guitar.addPoint(97,154); guitar.addPoint(91,152); guitar.addPoint(77,131); guitar.addPoint(65,123); guitar.addPoint(61,105); guitar.addPoint(64,94); guitar.addPoint(72,91); guitar.addPoint(78,82); guitar.addPoint(78,76); guitar.addPoint(70,73); guitar.addPoint(70,67); guitar.addPoint(93,51); guitar.addPoint(101,48); guitar.addPoint(111,52); guitar.addPoint(118,59); guitar.addPoint(119,70); guitar.addPoint(117,78); guitar.addPoint(113,79); guitar.addPoint(112,86); guitar.addPoint(111,88); guitar.addPoint(109,89); guitar.addPoint(109,92); guitar.addPoint(122,99);// guitar.addPoint(124,99); guitar.addPoint(133,96); guitar.addPoint(145,93); //guitar.addPoint(138,124); guitar.addPoint(150,69); guitar.addPoint(150,62); guitar.addPoint(155,58); guitar.addPoint(154,53); guitar.addPoint(149,50); guitar.addPoint(154,46); guitar.addPoint(153,38); guitar.addPoint(147,28); g2.setColor(Color.black); g2.fill(guitar); g2.draw(guitar); Polygon guitar2 = new Polygon (); guitar2.addPoint(141,108); guitar2.addPoint(139,126); guitar2.addPoint(135,122); guitar2.addPoint(128,122); guitar2.addPoint(129,116); guitar2.addPoint(143,108); g2.setColor(Color.white); g2.fill(guitar2); g2.draw(guitar2); //bass guitar Polygon bassgt = new Polygon (); bassgt.addPoint(871,21); bassgt.addPoint(879,24); bassgt.addPoint(885,32); bassgt.addPoint(886,42); bassgt.addPoint(895,47); bassgt.addPoint(904,56); bassgt.addPoint(907,69); bassgt.addPoint(909,83); bassgt.addPoint(910,91); bassgt.addPoint(941,81); bassgt.addPoint(946,75); bassgt.addPoint(945,67); bassgt.addPoint(950,67); bassgt.addPoint(955,75); bassgt.addPoint(960,68); bassgt.addPoint(963,74); bassgt.addPoint(967,72); bassgt.addPoint(971,66); bassgt.addPoint(973,70); bassgt.addPoint(981,67); bassgt.addPoint(984,71); bassgt.addPoint(982,76); bassgt.addPoint(987,80); bassgt.addPoint(986,82); bassgt.addPoint(980,83); bassgt.addPoint(979,90); bassgt.addPoint(974,85); bassgt.addPoint(970,86); bassgt.addPoint(973,91); bassgt.addPoint(965,86); bassgt.addPoint(960,90); bassgt.addPoint(961,100); bassgt.addPoint(955,92); bassgt.addPoint(944,91); bassgt.addPoint(907,103); bassgt.addPoint(906,109); bassgt.addPoint(893,114); bassgt.addPoint(895,123); bassgt.addPoint(900,131); bassgt.addPoint(904,134); bassgt.addPoint(908,145); bassgt.addPoint(911,159); bassgt.addPoint(918,171); bassgt.addPoint(919,190); bassgt.addPoint(923,198); bassgt.addPoint(919,201); bassgt.addPoint(919,210); bassgt.addPoint(927,220); bassgt.addPoint(942,226); bassgt.addPoint(944,234); bassgt.addPoint(909,230); bassgt.addPoint(905,214); bassgt.addPoint(899,204); bassgt.addPoint(893,203); bassgt.addPoint(889,171); bassgt.addPoint(877,151); bassgt.addPoint(861,152); bassgt.addPoint(852,169); bassgt.addPoint(849,203); bassgt.addPoint(841,210); bassgt.addPoint(840,228); bassgt.addPoint(828,233); bassgt.addPoint(806,235); bassgt.addPoint(805,228); bassgt.addPoint(822,219); bassgt.addPoint(824,204); bassgt.addPoint(817,201); bassgt.addPoint(822,196); bassgt.addPoint(822,184); bassgt.addPoint(828,162); bassgt.addPoint(829,152); bassgt.addPoint(820,149); bassgt.addPoint(811,144); bassgt.addPoint(806,134); bassgt.addPoint(805,117); bassgt.addPoint(820,107); bassgt.addPoint(819,89); bassgt.addPoint(811,83); bassgt.addPoint(811,77); bassgt.addPoint(824,66); bassgt.addPoint(825,61); bassgt.addPoint(842,53); bassgt.addPoint(852,43); bassgt.addPoint(853,29); bassgt.addPoint(870,20); g2.setColor(Color.black); g2.fill(bassgt); g2.draw(bassgt); Polygon bassgt2 = new Polygon(); bassgt2.addPoint(845,78); bassgt2.addPoint(845,98); bassgt2.addPoint(843,98); bassgt2.addPoint(842,105); bassgt2.addPoint(839,109); bassgt2.addPoint(834,103); bassgt2.addPoint(832,85); bassgt2.addPoint(845,78); g2.setColor(Color.white); g2.fill(bassgt2); g2.draw(bassgt2); Polygon drums = new Polygon (); drums.addPoint(713,104); drums.addPoint(706,121); drums.addPoint(721,377); drums.addPoint(248,380); drums.addPoint(253,228); drums.addPoint(250,206); drums.addPoint(237,178); drums.addPoint(206,166); drums.addPoint(201,154); drums.addPoint(198,152); drums.addPoint(208,148); drums.addPoint(236,150); drums.addPoint(247,130); drums.addPoint(227,119); drums.addPoint(219,105); drums.addPoint(222,96); drums.addPoint(233,88); drums.addPoint(251,84); drums.addPoint(272,83); drums.addPoint(300,91); drums.addPoint(285,72); drums.addPoint(294,57); drums.addPoint(319,46); drums.addPoint(372,45); drums.addPoint(406,50); drums.addPoint(428,65); drums.addPoint(433,74); drums.addPoint(450,58); drums.addPoint(478,48); drums.addPoint(514,48); drums.addPoint(544,51); drums.addPoint(566,52); drums.addPoint(577,67); drums.addPoint(575,79); drums.addPoint(561,95); drums.addPoint(545,98); drums.addPoint(525,105); drums.addPoint(524,147); drums.addPoint(524,183); drums.addPoint(645,175); drums.addPoint(662,143); drums.addPoint(617,152); drums.addPoint(608,148); drums.addPoint(614,139); drums.addPoint(633,128); drums.addPoint(661,116); drums.addPoint(659,107); drums.addPoint(625,114); drums.addPoint(592,113); drums.addPoint(571,111); drums.addPoint(565,102); drums.addPoint(576,86); drums.addPoint(616,70); drums.addPoint(647,66); drums.addPoint(679,67); drums.addPoint(695,72); drums.addPoint(699,90); drums.addPoint(678,100); drums.addPoint(667,103); drums.addPoint(672,113); drums.addPoint(689,105); drums.addPoint(709,106); g2.setColor(Color.black); g2.fill(drums); g2.draw(drums); } } The second class: import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Graphics; import java.awt.Graphics2D; import java.awt.Rectangle; import java.awt.geom.Ellipse2D; import java.awt.geom.Line2D; import javax.swing.JComponent; import java.awt.GradientPaint; /* component that draws the concert background */ public class Concertbackground extends JComponent { public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { super.paintComponent(g); // Recover Graphics2D Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g; //Background Top g2.setColor(Color.BLUE); Rectangle backgroundTop = new Rectangle (0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight() / 4); g2.fill(backgroundTop); // Background bottom g2.setColor(Color.GREEN); Rectangle backgroundBottom = new Rectangle (0, getHeight() / 2, getWidth(), getHeight() / 2); g2.fill(backgroundBottom); // Speaker base g2.setColor(Color.BLACK); Rectangle base = new Rectangle (0, 0, 50, 100); g2.fill(base); // Speakers circles gray top g2.setColor(Color.DARK_GRAY); Ellipse2D.Double speakerTop = new Ellipse2D.Double(10, 10, 30, 30); g2.fill(speakerTop); //speakers circles black top g2.setColor(Color.BLACK); Ellipse2D.Double speakerTop1 = new Ellipse2D.Double(15, 15, 20, 20); g2.fill(speakerTop1); // Speakers circles gray bottom g2.setColor(Color.DARK_GRAY); Ellipse2D.Double speakerBottom = new Ellipse2D.Double(10, 50, 30, 30); g2.fill(speakerBottom); //speakers circles black bottom g2.setColor(Color.BLACK); Ellipse2D.Double speakerBottom1 = new Ellipse2D.Double(15, 55, 20, 20); g2.fill(speakerBottom1); } } My main question is how do I change my Jframe so it can use as many classes as I want, It cant be the size of my classes because they were used with the same 1000, 800 Jframe to make the classes. I also need to be able to add more than just these two classes to my Jframe.

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  • Using getters/setters in Java

    - by Crystal
    I'm having some trouble with the idea of accessing variables from other classes. I had a post here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3011642/having-access-to-a-private-variable-from-other-classes-in-java where I got some useful information, and thought an example would be better show it, and ask a separate question as well. I have a form that I can input data to, and it has a List variable. I didn't make it static at first, but I thought if I needed to get the total size from another class, then I wouldn't create an instance of that class in order to use the function to getTotalContacts. I basically want to update my status bar with the total number of contacts that are in my list. One of the members said in the above post to use the original Foo member to get the contacts, but I'm not sure how that works in this case. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks. import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import java.util.List; import java.util.ArrayList; public class AddressBook { public static void main(String[] args) { EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { AddressBookFrame frame = new AddressBookFrame(); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar(); frame.setJMenuBar(menuBar); JMenu fileMenu = new JMenu("File"); JMenuItem openItem = new JMenuItem("Open"); JMenuItem saveItem = new JMenuItem("Save"); JMenuItem saveAsItem = new JMenuItem("Save As"); JMenuItem printItem = new JMenuItem("Print"); JMenuItem exitItem = new JMenuItem("Exit"); fileMenu.add(openItem); fileMenu.add(saveItem); fileMenu.add(saveAsItem); fileMenu.add(printItem); fileMenu.add(exitItem); menuBar.add(fileMenu); JMenu editMenu = new JMenu("Edit"); JMenuItem newItem = new JMenuItem("New"); JMenuItem editItem = new JMenuItem("Edit"); JMenuItem deleteItem = new JMenuItem("Delete"); JMenuItem findItem = new JMenuItem("Find"); JMenuItem firstItem = new JMenuItem("First"); JMenuItem previousItem = new JMenuItem("Previous"); JMenuItem nextItem = new JMenuItem("Next"); JMenuItem lastItem = new JMenuItem("Last"); editMenu.add(newItem); editMenu.add(editItem); editMenu.add(deleteItem); editMenu.add(findItem); editMenu.add(firstItem); editMenu.add(previousItem); editMenu.add(nextItem); editMenu.add(lastItem); menuBar.add(editMenu); JMenu helpMenu = new JMenu("Help"); JMenuItem documentationItem = new JMenuItem("Documentation"); JMenuItem aboutItem = new JMenuItem("About"); helpMenu.add(documentationItem); helpMenu.add(aboutItem); menuBar.add(helpMenu); frame.setVisible(true); } }); } } class AddressBookFrame extends JFrame { public AddressBookFrame() { setLayout(new BorderLayout()); setTitle("Address Book"); setSize(DEFAULT_WIDTH, DEFAULT_HEIGHT); AddressBookToolBar toolBar = new AddressBookToolBar(); add(toolBar, BorderLayout.NORTH); AddressBookStatusBar aStatusBar = new AddressBookStatusBar(); add(aStatusBar, BorderLayout.SOUTH); AddressBookForm form = new AddressBookForm(); add(form, BorderLayout.CENTER); } public static final int DEFAULT_WIDTH = 500; public static final int DEFAULT_HEIGHT = 500; } /* Create toolbar buttons and add buttons to toolbar */ class AddressBookToolBar extends JPanel { public AddressBookToolBar() { setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT)); JToolBar bar = new JToolBar(); JButton newButton = new JButton("New"); JButton editButton = new JButton("Edit"); JButton deleteButton = new JButton("Delete"); JButton findButton = new JButton("Find"); JButton firstButton = new JButton("First"); JButton previousButton = new JButton("Previous"); JButton nextButton = new JButton("Next"); JButton lastButton = new JButton("Last"); bar.add(newButton); bar.add(editButton); bar.add(deleteButton); bar.add(findButton); bar.add(firstButton); bar.add(previousButton); bar.add(nextButton); bar.add(lastButton); add(bar); } } /* Creates the status bar string */ class AddressBookStatusBar extends JPanel { public AddressBookStatusBar() { setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT)); this.statusBarString = new JLabel("Total: " + AddressBookForm.getTotalContacts()); add(this.statusBarString); } public void updateLabel() { contactsLabel.setText(AddressBookForm.getTotalContacts().toString()); } private JLabel statusBarString; private JLabel contactsLabel; } class AddressBookForm extends JPanel { public AddressBookForm() { // create form panel this.setLayout(new GridLayout(2, 1)); JPanel formPanel = new JPanel(); formPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(4, 2)); firstName = new JTextField(20); lastName = new JTextField(20); telephone = new JTextField(20); email = new JTextField(20); JLabel firstNameLabel = new JLabel("First Name: ", JLabel.LEFT); formPanel.add(firstNameLabel); formPanel.add(firstName); JLabel lastNameLabel = new JLabel("Last Name: ", JLabel.LEFT); formPanel.add(lastNameLabel); formPanel.add(lastName); JLabel telephoneLabel = new JLabel("Telephone: ", JLabel.LEFT); formPanel.add(telephoneLabel); formPanel.add(telephone); JLabel emailLabel = new JLabel("Email: ", JLabel.LEFT); formPanel.add(emailLabel); formPanel.add(email); add(formPanel); // create button panel JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel(); JButton insertButton = new JButton("Insert"); JButton displayButton = new JButton("Display"); ActionListener insertAction = new AddressBookListener(); ActionListener displayAction = new AddressBookListener(); insertButton.addActionListener(insertAction); displayButton.addActionListener(displayAction); buttonPanel.add(insertButton); buttonPanel.add(displayButton); add(buttonPanel); } public static int getTotalContacts() { return addressList.size(); } //void addContact(Person contact); private JTextField firstName; private JTextField lastName; private JTextField telephone; private JTextField email; private JLabel contacts; private static List<Person> addressList = new ArrayList<Person>(); private class AddressBookListener implements ActionListener { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { String buttonPressed = e.getActionCommand(); System.out.println(buttonPressed); if (buttonPressed == "Insert") { Person aPerson = new Person(firstName.getText(), lastName.getText(), telephone.getText(), email.getText()); addressList.add(aPerson); } else { for (Person p : addressList) { System.out.println(p); } } } } } My other question is why do I get the error, "int cannot be dereferenced contactsLabel.setText(AddressbookForm.getTotalContacts().toString()); Thanks!

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  • Will these optimizations to my Ruby implementation of diff improve performance in a Rails app?

    - by grg-n-sox
    <tl;dr> In source version control diff patch generation, would it be worth it to use the optimizations listed at the very bottom of this writing (see <optimizations>) in my Ruby implementation of diff for making diff patches? </tl;dr> <introduction> I am programming something I have never done before and there might already be tools out there to do the exact thing I am programming but at this point I am having too much fun to care so I am still going to do it from scratch, even if there is a tool for this. So anyways, I am working on a Ruby on Rails app and need a certain feature. Basically I want each entry in a table of mine, let's say for example a table of video games, to have a stored chunk of text that represents a review or something of the sort for that table entry. However, I want this text to be both editable by any registered user and also keep track of different submissions in a version control system. The simplest solution I could think of is just implement a solution that keeps track of the text body and the diff patch history of different versions of the text body as objects in Ruby and then serialize it, preferably in human readable form (so I'll most likely use YAML for this) for editing if needed due to corruption by a software bug or a mistake is made by an admin doing some version editing. So at first I just tried to dive in head first into this feature to find that the problem of generating a diff patch is more difficult that I thought to do efficiently. So I did some research and came across some ideas. Some I have implemented already and some I have not. However, it all pretty much revolves around the longest common subsequence problem, as you would already know if you have already done anything with diff or diff-like features, and optimization the function that solves it. Currently I have it so it truncates the compared versions of the text body from the beginning and end until non-matching lines are found. Then it solves the problem using a comparison matrix, but instead of incrementing the value stored in a cell when it finds a matching line like in most longest common subsequence algorithms I have seen examples of, I increment when I have a non-matching line so as to calculate edit distance instead of longest common subsequence. Although as far as I can tell between the two approaches, they are essentially two sides of the same coin so either could be used to derive an answer. It then back-traces through the comparison matrix and notes when there was an incrementation and in which adjacent cell (West, Northwest, or North) to determine that line's diff entry and assumes all other lines to be unchanged. Normally I would leave it at that, but since this is going into a Rails environment and not just some stand-alone Ruby script, I started getting worried about needing to optimize at least enough so if a spammer that somehow knew how I implemented the version control system and knew my worst case scenario entry still wouldn't be able to hit the server that bad. After some searching and reading of research papers and articles through the internet, I've come across several that seem decent but all seem to have pros and cons and I am having a hard time deciding how well in this situation that the pros and cons balance out. So are the ones listed here worth it? I have listed them with known pros and cons. </introduction> <optimizations> Chop the compared sequences into multiple chucks of subsequences by splitting where lines are unchanged, and then truncating each section of unchanged lines at the beginning and end of each section. Then solve the edit distance of each subsequence. Pro: Changes the time increase as the changed area gets bigger from a quadratic increase to something more similar to a linear increase. Con: Figuring out where to split already seems like you have to solve edit distance except now you don't care how it is changed. Would be fine if this was solvable by a process closer to solving hamming distance but a single insertion would throw this off. Use a cryptographic hash function to both convert all sequence elements into integers and ensure uniqueness. Then solve the edit distance comparing the hash integers instead of the sequence elements themselves. Pro: The operation of comparing two integers is faster than the operation of comparing two strings, so a slight performance gain is received after every comparison, which can be a lot overall. Con: Using a cryptographic hash function takes time to convert all the sequence elements and may end up costing more time to do the conversion that you gain back from the integer comparisons. You could use the built in hash function for a string but that will not guarantee uniqueness. Use lazy evaluation to only calculate the three center-most diagonals of the comparison matrix and then only calculate additional diagonals as needed. And then also use this approach to possibly remove the need on some comparisons to compare all three adjacent cells as desribed here. Pro: Can turn an algorithm that always takes O(n * m) time and make it so only worst case scenario is that time, best case becomes practically linear, and average case is somewhere between the two. Con: It is an algorithm I've only seen implemented in functional programming languages and I am having a difficult time comprehending how to convert this into Ruby based on how it is described at the site linked to above. Make a C module and do the hard work at the native level in C and just make a Ruby wrapper for it so Ruby can make all the calls to it that it needs. Pro: I have to imagine that evaluating something like this in could be a LOT faster. Con: I have no idea how Rails handles apps with ruby code that has C extensions and it hurts the portability of the app. This is an optimization for after the solving of edit distance, but idea is to store additional combined diffs with the ones produced by each version to make a delta-tree data structure with the most recently made diff as the root node of the tree so getting to any version takes worst case time of O(log n) instead of O(n). Pro: Would make going back to an old version a lot faster. Con: It would mean every new commit, the delta-tree would get a new root node that will cost time to reorganize the delta-tree for an operation that will be carried out a lot more often than going back a version, not to mention the unlikelihood it will be an old version. </optimizations> So are these things worth the effort?

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  • A "Trig" Calculating Class

    - by Clinton Scott
    I have been trying to create a gui that calculates trigonometric functions based off of the user's input. I have had success in the GUI part, but my class that I wrote to hold information using inheritance seems to be messed up, because when I run it gives an error saying: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Uncompilable source code - constructor ArcTrigCalcCon in class TrigCalc.ArcTrigCalcCon cannot be applied to given types; required: double,double,double,double,double,double found: java.lang.Double,java.lang.Double,java.lang.Double reason: actual and formal argument lists differ in length at TrigCalc.TrigCalcGUI.(TrigCalcGUI.java:31) at TrigCalc.TrigCalcGUI.main(TrigCalcGUI.java:87) Java Result: 1 and says it is the object causing the problem. Below Will be my code. First I will put up my inheritance class with cosecant secant and cotangent and then my original class with the original 3 trig functions: { public ArcTrigCalcCon(double s, double cs, double t, double csc, double sc, double ct) { // Inherit from the Trig Calc class super(s, cs, t); cosecant = 1/s; secant = 1/cs; cotangent = 1/t; } public void setCsc(double csc) { cosecant = csc; } public void setSec(double sc) { secant = sc; } public void setCot(double ct) { cotangent = ct; } } Here is the first Trigonometric class: public class TrigCalcCon { public double sine; public double cosine; public double tangent; public TrigCalcCon(double s, double cs, double t) { sine = s; cosine = cs; tangent = t; } public void setSin(double s) { sine = s; } public void setCos(double cs) { cosine = cs; } public void setTan(double t) { tangent = t; } public void set(double s, double cs, double t) { sine = s; cosine = cs; tangent = t; } public double getSin() { return Math.sin(sine); } public double getCos() { return Math.cos(cosine); } public double getTan() { return Math.tan(tangent); } } and here is the demo class to run the gui: public class TrigCalcGUI extends JFrame implements ActionListener { // Instance Variables private String input; private Double s, cs, t, csc, sc, ct; private JPanel mainPanel, sinPanel, cosPanel, tanPanel, cscPanel, secPanel, cotPanel, buttonPanel, inputPanel, displayPanel; // Panel Display private JLabel sinLabel, cosLabel, tanLabel, secLabel, cscLabel, cotLabel, inputLabel; private JTextField sinTF, cosTF, tanTF, secTF, cscTF, cotTF, inputTF; //Text Fields for sin, cos, and tan, and inverse private JButton calcButton, clearButton; // Calculate and Exit Buttons // Object ArcTrigCalcCon trC = new ArcTrigCalcCon(s, cs, t); public TrigCalcGUI() { // title bar text. super("Trig Calculator"); // Corner exit button action. setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); // Create main panel to add each panel to mainPanel = new JPanel(); mainPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(3,2)); displayPanel = new JPanel(); displayPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(3,2)); // Assign Panel to each variable inputPanel = new JPanel(); sinPanel = new JPanel(); cosPanel = new JPanel(); tanPanel = new JPanel(); cscPanel = new JPanel(); secPanel = new JPanel(); cotPanel = new JPanel(); buttonPanel = new JPanel(); // Call each constructor buildInputPanel(); buildSinCosTanPanels(); buildCscSecCotPanels(); buildButtonPanel(); // Add each panel to content pane displayPanel.add(sinPanel); displayPanel.add(cscPanel); displayPanel.add(cosPanel); displayPanel.add(secPanel); displayPanel.add(tanPanel); displayPanel.add(cotPanel); // Add three content panes to GUI mainPanel.add(inputPanel, BorderLayout.NORTH); mainPanel.add(displayPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER); mainPanel.add(buttonPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH); //add mainPanel this.add(mainPanel); // size of window to content this.pack(); // display window setVisible(true); } public static void main(String[] args) { new TrigCalcGUI(); } private void buildInputPanel() { inputLabel = new JLabel("Enter a Value: "); inputTF = new JTextField(5); inputPanel.add(inputLabel); inputPanel.add(inputTF); } // Building Constructor for sinPanel cosPanel, and tanPanel private void buildSinCosTanPanels() { // Set layout and border for sinPanel sinPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,2)); sinPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Sine")); // sinTF = new JTextField(5); sinTF.setEditable(false); sinPanel.add(sinTF); // Set layout and border for cosPanel cosPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,2)); cosPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Cosine")); cosTF = new JTextField(5); cosTF.setEditable(false); cosPanel.add(cosTF); // Set layout and border for tanPanel tanPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,2)); tanPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Tangent")); tanTF = new JTextField(5); tanTF.setEditable(false); tanPanel.add(tanTF); } // Building Constructor for cscPanel secPanel, and cotPanel private void buildCscSecCotPanels() { // Set layout and border for cscPanel cscPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,2)); cscPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Cosecant")); // cscTF = new JTextField(5); cscTF.setEditable(false); cscPanel.add(cscTF); // Set layout and border for secPanel secPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,2)); secPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Secant")); secTF = new JTextField(5); secTF.setEditable(false); secPanel.add(secTF); // Set layout and border for cotPanel cotPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,2)); cotPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Cotangent")); cotTF = new JTextField(5); cotTF.setEditable(false); cotPanel.add(cotTF); } private void buildButtonPanel() { // Create buttons and add events calcButton = new JButton("Calculate"); calcButton.addActionListener(new CalcButtonListener()); clearButton = new JButton("Clear"); clearButton.addActionListener(new ClearButtonListener()); buttonPanel.add(calcButton); buttonPanel.add(clearButton); } @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { } private class CalcButtonListener implements ActionListener { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) { // Declare boolean variable boolean incorrect = true; // Set input variable to input text field text input = inputTF.getText(); ImageIcon newIcon; ImageIcon frowny = new ImageIcon(TrigCalcGUI.class.getResource("/Sad_Face.png")); Image gm = frowny.getImage(); Image newFrowny = gm.getScaledInstance(100, 100, java.awt.Image.SCALE_FAST); newIcon = new ImageIcon(newFrowny); // If boolean is true, throw exception if(incorrect) { try{Double.parseDouble(input); incorrect = false;} catch(NumberFormatException nfe) { String s = "Invalid Input " + "/n Input Must Be a Numerical value." + "/nPlease Press Ok and Try Again"; JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, s, "Invalid", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE, newIcon); inputTF.setText(""); inputTF.requestFocus(); } } // If boolean is not true, proceed with output if (incorrect != true) { /* Set each text field's output to the String double value * of inputTF */ sinTF.setText(input); cosTF.setText(input); tanTF.setText(input); cscTF.setText(input); secTF.setText(input); cotTF.setText(input); } } } /** * Private inner class that handles the event when * the user clicks the Exit button. */ private class ClearButtonListener implements ActionListener { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) { // Clear field sinTF.setText(""); cosTF.setText(""); tanTF.setText(""); cscTF.setText(""); secTF.setText(""); cotTF.setText(""); // Clear textfield and set cursor focus to field inputTF.setText(""); inputTF.requestFocus(); } } }

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  • questions regarding the use of A* with the 15-square puzzle

    - by Cheeso
    I'm trying to build an A* solver for a 15-square puzzle. The goal is to re-arrange the tiles so that they appear in their natural positions. You can only slide one tile at a time. Each possible state of the puzzle is a node in the search graph. For the h(x) function, I am using an aggregate sum, across all tiles, of the tile's dislocation from the goal state. In the above image, the 5 is at location 0,0, and it belongs at location 1,0, therefore it contributes 1 to the h(x) function. The next tile is the 11, located at 0,1, and belongs at 2,2, therefore it contributes 3 to h(x). And so on. EDIT: I now understand this is what they call "Manhattan distance", or "taxicab distance". I have been using a step count for g(x). In my implementation, for any node in the state graph, g is just +1 from the prior node's g. To find successive nodes, I just examine where I can possibly move the "hole" in the puzzle. There are 3 neighbors for the puzzle state (aka node) that is displayed: the hole can move north, west, or east. My A* search sometimes converges to a solution in 20s, sometimes 180s, and sometimes doesn't converge at all (waited 10 mins or more). I think h is reasonable. I'm wondering if I've modeled g properly. In other words, is it possible that my A* function is reaching a node in the graph via a path that is not the shortest path? Maybe have I not waited long enough? Maybe 10 minutes is not long enough? For a fully random arrangement, (assuming no parity problems), What is the average number of permutations an A* solution will examine? (please show the math) I'm going to look for logic errors in my code, but in the meantime, Any tips? (ps: it's done in Javascript). Also, no, this isn't CompSci homework. It's just a personal exploration thing. I'm just trying to learn Javascript. EDIT: I've found that the run-time is highly depend upon the heuristic. I saw the 10x factor applied to the heuristic from the article someone mentioned, and it made me wonder - why 10x? Why linear? Because this is done in javascript, I could modify the code to dynamically update an html table with the node currently being considered. This allowd me to peek at the algorithm as it was progressing. With a regular taxicab distance heuristic, I watched as it failed to converge. There were 5's and 12's in the top row, and they kept hanging around. I'd see 1,2,3,4 creep into the top row, but then they'd drop out, and other numbers would move up there. What I was hoping to see was 1,2,3,4 sort of creeping up to the top, and then staying there. I thought to myself - this is not the way I solve this personally. Doing this manually, I solve the top row, then the 2ne row, then the 3rd and 4th rows sort of concurrently. So I tweaked the h(x) function to more heavily weight the higher rows and the "lefter" columns. The result was that the A* converged much more quickly. It now runs in 3 minutes instead of "indefinitely". With the "peek" I talked about, I can see the smaller numbers creep up to the higher rows and stay there. Not only does this seem like the right thing, it runs much faster. I'm in the process of trying a bunch of variations. It seems pretty clear that A* runtime is very sensitive to the heuristic. Currently the best heuristic I've found uses the summation of dislocation * ((4-i) + (4-j)) where i and j are the row and column, and dislocation is the taxicab distance. One interesting part of the result I got: with a particular heuristic I find a path very quickly, but it is obviously not the shortest path. I think this is because I am weighting the heuristic. In one case I got a path of 178 steps in 10s. My own manual effort produce a solution in 87 moves. (much more than 10s). More investigation warranted. So the result is I am seeing it converge must faster, and the path is definitely not the shortest. I have to think about this more. Code: var stop = false; function Astar(start, goal, callback) { // start and goal are nodes in the graph, represented by // an array of 16 ints. The goal is: [1,2,3,...14,15,0] // Zero represents the hole. // callback is a method to call when finished. This runs a long time, // therefore we need to use setTimeout() to break it up, to avoid // the browser warning like "Stop running this script?" // g is the actual distance traveled from initial node to current node. // h is the heuristic estimate of distance from current to goal. stop = false; start.g = start.dontgo = 0; // calcHeuristic inserts an .h member into the array calcHeuristicDistance(start); // start the stack with one element var closed = []; // set of nodes already evaluated. var open = [ start ]; // set of nodes to evaluate (start with initial node) var iteration = function() { if (open.length==0) { // no more nodes. Fail. callback(null); return; } var current = open.shift(); // get highest priority node // update the browser with a table representation of the // node being evaluated $("#solution").html(stateToString(current)); // check solution returns true if current == goal if (checkSolution(current,goal)) { // reconstructPath just records the position of the hole // through each node var path= reconstructPath(start,current); callback(path); return; } closed.push(current); // get the set of neighbors. This is 3 or fewer nodes. // (nextStates is optimized to NOT turn directly back on itself) var neighbors = nextStates(current, goal); for (var i=0; i<neighbors.length; i++) { var n = neighbors[i]; // skip this one if we've already visited it if (closed.containsNode(n)) continue; // .g, .h, and .previous get assigned implicitly when // calculating neighbors. n.g is nothing more than // current.g+1 ; // add to the open list if (!open.containsNode(n)) { // slot into the list, in priority order (minimum f first) open.priorityPush(n); n.previous = current; } } if (stop) { callback(null); return; } setTimeout(iteration, 1); }; // kick off the first iteration iteration(); return null; }

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  • Passing ActionListeners in Java, pack()

    - by Crystal
    Two questions. First question is I'm trying to create a simple form that when you press a button, it adds a Person object to the ArrayList. However, since I am not used to GUIs, I tried creating one and am first just trying to get the user input from the JTextField, create an ActionListener object of the appropriate type, so once that works, then I can pass in all the JTextField inputs to create my Person object. Unfortunately, I am not getting any data when I type in something to the firstName JTextField and was wondering if someone could look at my code below. import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import java.util.List; import java.util.ArrayList; public class AddressBook { public static void main(String[] args) { EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { AddressBookFrame frame = new AddressBookFrame(); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar(); frame.setJMenuBar(menuBar); JMenu fileMenu = new JMenu("File"); JMenuItem openItem = new JMenuItem("Open"); JMenuItem saveItem = new JMenuItem("Save"); JMenuItem saveAsItem = new JMenuItem("Save As"); JMenuItem printItem = new JMenuItem("Print"); JMenuItem exitItem = new JMenuItem("Exit"); fileMenu.add(openItem); fileMenu.add(saveItem); fileMenu.add(saveAsItem); fileMenu.add(printItem); fileMenu.add(exitItem); menuBar.add(fileMenu); JMenu editMenu = new JMenu("Edit"); JMenuItem newItem = new JMenuItem("New"); JMenuItem editItem = new JMenuItem("Edit"); JMenuItem deleteItem = new JMenuItem("Delete"); JMenuItem findItem = new JMenuItem("Find"); JMenuItem firstItem = new JMenuItem("First"); JMenuItem previousItem = new JMenuItem("Previous"); JMenuItem nextItem = new JMenuItem("Next"); JMenuItem lastItem = new JMenuItem("Last"); editMenu.add(newItem); editMenu.add(editItem); editMenu.add(deleteItem); editMenu.add(findItem); editMenu.add(firstItem); editMenu.add(previousItem); editMenu.add(nextItem); editMenu.add(lastItem); menuBar.add(editMenu); JMenu helpMenu = new JMenu("Help"); JMenuItem documentationItem = new JMenuItem("Documentation"); JMenuItem aboutItem = new JMenuItem("About"); helpMenu.add(documentationItem); helpMenu.add(aboutItem); menuBar.add(helpMenu); frame.setVisible(true); } }); } } class AddressBookFrame extends JFrame { public AddressBookFrame() { setLayout(new BorderLayout()); setTitle("Address Book"); setSize(DEFAULT_WIDTH, DEFAULT_HEIGHT); AddressBookToolBar toolBar = new AddressBookToolBar(); add(toolBar, BorderLayout.NORTH); AddressBookStatusBar aStatusBar = new AddressBookStatusBar("5"); add(aStatusBar, BorderLayout.SOUTH); AddressBookForm form = new AddressBookForm(); add(form, BorderLayout.CENTER); } public static final int DEFAULT_WIDTH = 500; public static final int DEFAULT_HEIGHT = 500; } /* Create toolbar buttons and add buttons to toolbar */ class AddressBookToolBar extends JPanel { public AddressBookToolBar() { setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT)); JToolBar bar = new JToolBar(); JButton newButton = new JButton("New"); JButton editButton = new JButton("Edit"); JButton deleteButton = new JButton("Delete"); JButton findButton = new JButton("Find"); JButton firstButton = new JButton("First"); JButton previousButton = new JButton("Previous"); JButton nextButton = new JButton("Next"); JButton lastButton = new JButton("Last"); bar.add(newButton); bar.add(editButton); bar.add(deleteButton); bar.add(findButton); bar.add(firstButton); bar.add(previousButton); bar.add(nextButton); bar.add(lastButton); add(bar); } } /* Creates the status bar string */ class AddressBookStatusBar extends JPanel { public AddressBookStatusBar(String statusBarString) { setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT)); this.statusBarString = new JLabel("Total number of people: " + statusBarString); add(this.statusBarString); } private JLabel statusBarString; private int totalContacts; } class AddressBookForm extends JPanel { public AddressBookForm() { this.setLayout(new GridLayout(2, 1)); JPanel formPanel = new JPanel(); formPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(4, 2)); JTextField firstName = new JTextField(20); JTextField lastName = new JTextField(20); JTextField telephone = new JTextField(20); JTextField email = new JTextField(20); JLabel firstNameLabel = new JLabel("First Name: ", JLabel.LEFT); formPanel.add(firstNameLabel); formPanel.add(firstName); JLabel lastNameLabel = new JLabel("Last Name: ", JLabel.LEFT); formPanel.add(lastNameLabel); formPanel.add(lastName); JLabel telephoneLabel = new JLabel("Telephone: ", JLabel.LEFT); formPanel.add(telephoneLabel); formPanel.add(telephone); JLabel emailLabel = new JLabel("Email: ", JLabel.LEFT); formPanel.add(emailLabel); formPanel.add(email); add(formPanel); JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel(); JButton insertButton = new JButton("Insert"); JButton displayButton = new JButton("Display"); // create button actions AddressBookManager insertAction = new AddressBookManager(firstName.getText()); insertButton.addActionListener(insertAction); buttonPanel.add(insertButton); buttonPanel.add(displayButton); add(buttonPanel); } private List<Person> addressList = new ArrayList<Person>(); private class AddressBookManager implements ActionListener { public AddressBookManager(String text) { // addressList.add( setName(text); System.out.println("Test" + text); } public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { System.out.println("Hello" + name); } public void setName(String name) { this.name = name; } private String name; } } Second question is, how do I make my form not take up the whole center space. I don't like the stretch look and was hoping the JTextFields could be just one line long, not a big box. Same thing with the buttons. Any thoughts? Thanks.

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  • How can I update a Jtextarea once? (mysql side-?)

    - by user1294196
    Ok what I've been trying to do is figure out how to make it so when I press the search button on my program the code that is currently just being printed to the console will print to the text area I have. I can't figure out how to do this and I've searched google and still found no answer. And while I'm at it if anyone could help me figure out how to send this same line of information to a mysql database that would help greatly. package GTE; import java.awt.EventQueue; public class GTE { private JFrame frmGte; public String hashq = "..."; public String twtresults; public int refresh = 1; public static void main(String[] args) { java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { try { GTE window = new GTE(); window.frmGte.setVisible(true); } catch (Exception e) {} } }); } /** * Create the application. * @throws IOException * @throws FontFormatException */ public GTE(){ try { initialize(); } catch (FontFormatException e) {} catch (IOException e) {} } /** * Initialize the contents of the frame. * @throws IOException * @throws FontFormatException */ private void initialize() throws FontFormatException, IOException { frmGte = new JFrame(); frmGte.setResizable(false); frmGte.setTitle("GTE"); frmGte.setBounds(100, 100, 450, 390); frmGte.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); GridBagLayout gridBagLayout = new GridBagLayout(); gridBagLayout.columnWidths = new int[]{434, 0}; gridBagLayout.rowHeights = new int[]{21, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}; gridBagLayout.columnWeights = new double[]{0.0, Double.MIN_VALUE}; gridBagLayout.rowWeights = new double[]{0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, Double.MIN_VALUE}; frmGte.getContentPane().setLayout(gridBagLayout); JLabel GTETitle = new JLabel("Personal Tweet Extractor"); InputStream is = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("ultraviolentbb_reg.ttf"); Font GTEFont = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT,is); Font f = GTEFont.deriveFont(24f); GTETitle.setFont(f); GTETitle.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER); GridBagConstraints gbc_GTETitle = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_GTETitle.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 0); gbc_GTETitle.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTH; gbc_GTETitle.fill = GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL; gbc_GTETitle.gridx = 0; gbc_GTETitle.gridy = 0; frmGte.getContentPane().add(GTETitle, gbc_GTETitle); Label label_2 = new Label("~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"); GridBagConstraints gbc_label_2 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_label_2.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 0); gbc_label_2.gridx = 0; gbc_label_2.gridy = 1; frmGte.getContentPane().add(label_2, gbc_label_2); JLabel SearchTweets = new JLabel("Search For Tweets With" + hashq + ":"); GridBagConstraints gbc_SearchTweets = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_SearchTweets.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 0); gbc_SearchTweets.gridx = 0; gbc_SearchTweets.gridy = 2; frmGte.getContentPane().add(SearchTweets, gbc_SearchTweets); JLabel label = new JLabel("#"); GridBagConstraints gbc_label = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_label.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 0); gbc_label.gridx = 0; gbc_label.gridy = 3; frmGte.getContentPane().add(label, gbc_label); JButton Search = new JButton("Start Search"); Search.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) { TS(hashq); GTE.this.refresh = 0; try { nulll dialog = new nulll(); dialog.setDefaultCloseOperation(JDialog.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE); dialog.setVisible(true); } catch (Exception e) {} } public void TS(String hashtag){ Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance(); try { System.out.println(hashtag); QueryResult result = twitter.search(new Query("#" + hashtag)); List<Tweet> tweets = result.getTweets(); for (Tweet tweet : tweets) { System.out.println("@" + tweet.getFromUser() + " : " + tweet.getText()); GTE.this.twtresults = ("@" + tweet.getFromUser() + " : " + tweet.getText()); } } catch (TwitterException te) { te.printStackTrace(); System.out.println("Failed to search tweets: " + te.getMessage()); System.exit(-1); } } }); TextField textField = new TextField(); textField.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) { GTE.this.hashq = evt.getActionCommand(); } }); GridBagConstraints gbc_textField = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_textField.ipadx = 99; gbc_textField.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 0); gbc_textField.gridx = 0; gbc_textField.gridy = 4; frmGte.getContentPane().add(textField, gbc_textField); GridBagConstraints gbc_Search = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_Search.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 0); gbc_Search.gridx = 0; gbc_Search.gridy = 5; frmGte.getContentPane().add(Search, gbc_Search); Label label_1 = new Label("Search Results For Tweets With"); GridBagConstraints gbc_label_1 = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_label_1.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 5, 0); gbc_label_1.gridx = 0; gbc_label_1.gridy = 6; frmGte.getContentPane().add(label_1, gbc_label_1); TextArea textArea = new TextArea(); textArea.setText(twtresults); textArea.setEditable(false); GridBagConstraints gbc_textArea = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc_textArea.gridx = 0; gbc_textArea.gridy = 7; frmGte.getContentPane().add(textArea, gbc_textArea); JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar(); frmGte.setJMenuBar(menuBar); JMenu Filemenu = new JMenu("File"); menuBar.add(Filemenu); JMenuItem Exititem = new JMenuItem("Exit"); Exititem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) { System.exit(0); } }); Filemenu.add(Exititem); JMenu Helpmenu = new JMenu("Help"); menuBar.add(Helpmenu); JMenuItem Aboutitem = new JMenuItem("About"); Helpmenu.add(Aboutitem); } }

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  • JQuery Hover li Show div which sits outside li structure

    - by Dave_Stott
    Hi everyone I'm currently trying to create a "mega" dropout menu using JQuery but have encountered an issue I'm yet to be able to resolve. At the moment I have the following HTML structure: <div id="TopNav" class="grid_16"> <ul class="cmsListMenuUL level0" id="TopNavMenu"> <li class="cmsListMenuLIcmsListMenuLI highlightedLI" id="TopNavMenu_Home"><a href="/"> <span class="text">Home</span></a></li> <li class="cmsListMenuLIfirst" id="TopNavMenu_0_1"><a href="/Key-Sectors.aspx" class="cmsListMenuLink"> <span class="text">Key Sectors</span></a></li> <li class="cmsListMenuLI" id="TopNavMenu_0_2"><a href="/Global-Brands.aspx" class="cmsListMenuLink"> <span class="text">Global Brands</span></a></li> <li class="cmsListMenuLI" id="TopNavMenu_0_3"><a href="/News---Features.aspx" class="cmsListMenuLink"> <span class="text">News &amp; Features</span></a></li> <li class="cmsListMenuLI" id="TopNavMenu_0_4"><a href="/Videos.aspx" class="cmsListMenuLink"> <span class="text">Videos</span></a></li> <li class="cmsListMenuLI" id="TopNavMenu_0_5"><a href="/Events.aspx" class="cmsListMenuLink"> <span class="text">Events</span></a></li> <li class="cmsListMenuLI" id="TopNavMenu_0_6"><a href="/Key-Cities.aspx" class="cmsListMenuLink"> <span class="text">Key Cities</span></a></li> <li class="cmsListMenuLI" id="TopNavMenu_0_7"><a href="/Doing-Business-in-Yorkshire.aspx" class="cmsListMenuLink"><span class="text">Doing Business in Yorkshire</span></a></li> <li class="cmsListMenuLI" id="TopNavMenu_0_8"><a href="/How-We-Can-Help.aspx" class="cmsListMenuLink"> <span class="text">How We Can Help</span></a></li> <li class="cmsListMenuLI" id="TopNavMenu_0_9"><a href="/Contact-Us.aspx" class="cmsListMenuLink"> <span class="text">Contact Us</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="sectorsDropped"> <div class="floatLeft leftColumn"> <div class="parentItem" style="border-color: #0064BE;"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Advanced-Engineering---Materials.aspx" class="parentItemContent"> Advanced Engineering &amp; Materials</a><div class="childItem"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Advanced-Engineering---Materials/Nuclear.aspx">- Nuclear</a></div> <div class="childItem"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Advanced-Engineering---Materials/Logistics---Infrastructure.aspx"> - Logistics &amp; Infrastructure</a></div> </div> <div class="parentItem" style="border-color: #FFB611;"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Chemicals.aspx" class="parentItemContent">Chemicals</a></div> <div class="parentItem" style="border-color: #B7CC0B;"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Environmental-Technologies.aspx" class="parentItemContent">Environmental Technologies</a><div class="childItem"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Environmental-Technologies/Offshore-Wind.aspx">- Offshore Wind</a></div> <div class="childItem"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Environmental-Technologies/Carbon-Capture---Storage.aspx">- Carbon Capture &amp; Storage</a></div> <div class="childItem"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Environmental-Technologies/Tidal-Power.aspx">- Tidal Power</a></div> <div class="childItem"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Environmental-Technologies/Biomass.aspx">- Biomass</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="floatLeft rightColumn"> <div class="parentItem" style="border-color: #AC26AA;"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Digital---New-Media.aspx" class="parentItemContent">Digital &amp; New Media</a></div> <div class="parentItem" style="border-color: #e1477e;"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Food---Drink.aspx" class="parentItemContent">Food &amp; Drink</a></div> <div class="parentItem" style="border-color: #00c5b5;"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Healthcare-Technologies.aspx" class="parentItemContent">Healthcare Technologies</a><div class="childItem"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Healthcare-Technologies/Biotechnology.aspx">- Biotechnology</a></div> <div class="childItem"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Healthcare-Technologies/Pharmaceuticals.aspx">- Pharmaceuticals</a></div> <div class="childItem"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Healthcare-Technologies/Medical-Devices.aspx">- Medical Devices</a></div> </div> <div class="parentItem" style="border-color: #AC1A2F;"> <a href="/Key-Sectors/Financial---Professional.aspx" class="parentItemContent">Financial &amp; Professional</a></div> </div> </div> In normal circumstances the div containing the "mega" menu options would sit inside the li item that fires the show/hide but this is currently not possible as the ul list of navigation links is rendered using a 3rd party piece of software which does not provide an equivalent of an OnItemDataBound event for me to be able to inject the div into the item Does anyone know of a way, using JQuery, of showing the div but maintain the display of the div as the mouse focus leaves the li that originaly displayed the div and actually enters the div? I'm currently using the following JQuery which displays the div correctly but as the mouse focus enters the div the div then disappears as the mouse focus from the li has now moved: $(document).ready(function() { function addMega(){ $(".sectorsDropped").toggle("fast"); } function removeMega(){ $(".sectorsDropped").toggle("fast"); } var megaConfig = { interval: 500, sensitivity: 4, over: addMega, timeout: 500, out: removeMega }; $("#TopNavMenu_0_1").hoverIntent(megaConfig) }); Thanks Dave

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  • 'SImple' 2 class Java calculator doesn't accept inputs or do calculations

    - by Tony O'Keeffe
    Hi, I'm trying to get a two class java calculator working (new to java) to work but so far i'm having no success. the two classes are outlined below, calcFrame is for the interface and calEngine should do the actual calculations but i can't get them to talk to one another. i'd really appreciate any assistance on same. Thanks. CalcFrame Code - import java.awt.; import javax.swing.; import javax.swing.border.; import java.awt.event.; /** *A Class that operates as the framework for a calculator. *No calculations are performed in this section */ public class CalcFrame implements ActionListener { private CalcEngine calc; private JFrame frame; private JTextField display; private JLabel status; /** * Constructor for objects of class GridLayoutExample */ public CalcFrame() { makeFrame(); //calc = engine; } /** * This allows you to quit the calculator. */ // Alows the class to quit. private void quit() { System.exit(0); } // Calls the dialog frame with the information about the project. private void showAbout() { JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(frame, "Group Project", "About Calculator Group Project", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE); } private void makeFrame() { frame = new JFrame("Group Project Calculator"); makeMenuBar(frame); JPanel contentPane = (JPanel)frame.getContentPane(); contentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout(8, 8)); contentPane.setBorder(new EmptyBorder( 10, 10, 10, 10)); /** * Insert a text field */ display = new JTextField(); contentPane.add(display, BorderLayout.NORTH); //Container contentPane = frame.getContentPane(); contentPane.setLayout(new GridLayout(4, 4)); JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(4, 4)); contentPane.add(new JButton("1")); contentPane.add(new JButton("2")); contentPane.add(new JButton("3")); contentPane.add(new JButton("4")); contentPane.add(new JButton("5")); contentPane.add(new JButton("6")); contentPane.add(new JButton("7")); contentPane.add(new JButton("8")); contentPane.add(new JButton("9")); contentPane.add(new JButton("0")); contentPane.add(new JButton("+")); contentPane.add(new JButton("-")); contentPane.add(new JButton("/")); contentPane.add(new JButton("*")); contentPane.add(new JButton("=")); contentPane.add(new JButton("C")); contentPane.add(buttonPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER); //status = new JLabel(calc.getAuthor()); //contentPane.add(status, BorderLayout.SOUTH); frame.pack(); frame.setVisible(true); } /** * Create the main frame's menu bar. * The frame that the menu bar should be added to. */ private void makeMenuBar(JFrame frame) { final int SHORTCUT_MASK = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getMenuShortcutKeyMask(); JMenuBar menubar = new JMenuBar(); frame.setJMenuBar(menubar); JMenu menu; JMenuItem item; // create the File menu menu = new JMenu("File"); menubar.add(menu); // create the Quit menu with a shortcut "Q" key. item = new JMenuItem("Quit"); item.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_Q, SHORTCUT_MASK)); item.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { quit(); } }); menu.add(item); // Adds an about menu. menu = new JMenu("About"); menubar.add(menu); // Displays item = new JMenuItem("Calculator Project"); item.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { showAbout(); } }); menu.add(item); } /** * An interface action has been performed. * Find out what it was and handle it. * @param event The event that has occured. */ public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) { String command = event.getActionCommand(); if(command.equals("0") || command.equals("1") || command.equals("2") || command.equals("3") || command.equals("4") || command.equals("5") || command.equals("6") || command.equals("7") || command.equals("8") || command.equals("9")) { int number = Integer.parseInt(command); calc.numberPressed(number); } else if(command.equals("+")) { calc.plus(); } else if(command.equals("-")) { calc.minus(); } else if(command.equals("=")) { calc.equals(); } else if(command.equals("C")) { calc.clear(); } else if(command.equals("?")) { } // else unknown command. redisplay(); } /** * Update the interface display to show the current value of the * calculator. */ private void redisplay() { display.setText("" + calc.getDisplayValue()); } /** * Toggle the info display in the calculator's status area between the * author and version information. */ } CalcEngine - public class CalcEngine { // The calculator's state is maintained in three fields: // buildingDisplayValue, haveLeftOperand, and lastOperator. // The current value (to be) shown in the display. private int displayValue; // The value of an existing left operand. private int leftOperand; /** * Create a CalcEngine. */ public CalcEngine() { clear(); } public int getDisplayValue() { return displayValue; } /** * A number button was pressed. * Either start a new operand, or incorporate this number as * the least significant digit of an existing one. * @param number The number pressed on the calculator. */ public void numberPressed(int number) { if(buildingDisplayValue) { // Incorporate this digit. displayValue = displayValue*10 + number; } else { // Start building a new number. displayValue = number; buildingDisplayValue = true; } } /** * The 'plus' button was pressed. */ public void plus() { applyOperator('+'); } /** * The 'minus' button was pressed. */ public void minus() { applyOperator('-'); } /** * The '=' button was pressed. */ public void equals() { // This should completes the building of a second operand, // so ensure that we really have a left operand, an operator // and a right operand. if(haveLeftOperand && lastOperator != '?' && buildingDisplayValue) { calculateResult(); lastOperator = '?'; buildingDisplayValue = false; } else { keySequenceError(); } } /** * The 'C' (clear) button was pressed. * Reset everything to a starting state. */ public void clear() { lastOperator = '?'; haveLeftOperand = false; buildingDisplayValue = false; displayValue = 0; } /** * @return The title of this calculation engine. */ public String getTitle() { return "Java Calculator"; } /** * @return The author of this engine. */ public String getAuthor() { return "David J. Barnes and Michael Kolling"; } /** * @return The version number of this engine. */ public String getVersion() { return "Version 1.0"; } /** * Combine leftOperand, lastOperator, and the * current display value. * The result becomes both the leftOperand and * the new display value. */ private void calculateResult() { switch(lastOperator) { case '+': displayValue = leftOperand + displayValue; haveLeftOperand = true; leftOperand = displayValue; break; case '-': displayValue = leftOperand - displayValue; haveLeftOperand = true; leftOperand = displayValue; break; default: keySequenceError(); break; } } /** * Apply an operator. * @param operator The operator to apply. */ private void applyOperator(char operator) { // If we are not in the process of building a new operand // then it is an error, unless we have just calculated a // result using '='. if(!buildingDisplayValue && !(haveLeftOperand && lastOperator == '?')) { keySequenceError(); return; } if(lastOperator != '?') { // First apply the previous operator. calculateResult(); } else { // The displayValue now becomes the left operand of this // new operator. haveLeftOperand = true; leftOperand = displayValue; } lastOperator = operator; buildingDisplayValue = false; } /** * Report an error in the sequence of keys that was pressed. */ private void keySequenceError() { System.out.println("A key sequence error has occurred."); // Reset everything. clear(); } }

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  • Java Simple Calculator

    - by Lahiru Kavinda
    I have made this calculator program in Java. This works well only when two numbers are calculated at one time. That means to get the sum of 1+2+3 you have to go this way : press 1 press + press 2 press = press + press 3 press = and it calculates it as 6. But I want to program this so that I can get the answer by: press 1 press + press 2 press + press 3 press = but this gives the answer 5!!! How to code this so that it works like an ordinary calculator? Here is my code: import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; public class cal1 extends JFrame { double op1 = 0d, op2 = 0d; double result = 0d; char action; boolean b = false; boolean pressequal = false; public cal1() { makeUI(); } private void makeUI() { setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); setSize(400, 400); b0 = new JButton("0"); b1 = new JButton("1"); b2 = new JButton("2"); b3 = new JButton("3"); b4 = new JButton("4"); b5 = new JButton("5"); b6 = new JButton("6"); b7 = new JButton("7"); b8 = new JButton("8"); b9 = new JButton("9"); bDot = new JButton("."); bMul = new JButton("*"); bDiv = new JButton("/"); bPlus = new JButton("+"); bMinus = new JButton("-"); bEq = new JButton("="); t = new JTextField(12); t.setFont(new Font("Tahoma", Font.PLAIN, 24)); t.setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.RIGHT); numpad = new JPanel(); display = new JPanel(); numpad.add(b7); numpad.add(b8); numpad.add(b9); numpad.add(bMul); numpad.add(b4); numpad.add(b5); numpad.add(b6); numpad.add(bDiv); numpad.add(b1); numpad.add(b2); numpad.add(b3); numpad.add(bMinus); numpad.add(bDot); numpad.add(b0); numpad.add(bEq); numpad.add(bPlus); numpad.setLayout(new GridLayout(4, 5, 5, 4)); display.add(t); add(display, BorderLayout.NORTH); add(numpad, BorderLayout.CENTER); t.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter() { @Override public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) { typeOnt(e); } }); b0.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b0pressed(e); } }); b1.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b1pressed(e); } }); b2.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b2pressed(e); } }); b3.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b3pressed(e); } }); b4.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b4pressed(e); } }); b5.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b5pressed(e); } }); b6.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b6pressed(e); } }); b7.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b7pressed(e); } }); b8.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b8pressed(e); } }); b9.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b9pressed(e); } }); bDot.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { bDotpressed(e); } }); bPlus.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { bPlusPressed(e); } }); bMinus.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { bMinusPressed(e); } }); bMul.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { bMulPressed(e); } }); bDiv.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { bDivPressed(e); } }); bEq.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { bEqpressed(e); } }); } void typeOnt(KeyEvent e) { e.consume(); } void b0pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "0"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "0"); } } void b1pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "1"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "1"); } } void b2pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "2"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "2"); } } void b3pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "3"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "3"); } } void b4pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "4"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "4"); } } void b5pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "5"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "5"); } } void b6pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "6"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "6"); } } void b7pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "7"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "7"); } } void b8pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "8"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "8"); } } void b9pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "9"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "9"); } } void bDotpressed(ActionEvent e) { if (!t.getText().contains(".")) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "0."); } else if (t.getText().isEmpty()) { t.setText("0."); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "."); } } } void bPlusPressed(ActionEvent e) { b = true; action = '+'; op1 = Double.parseDouble(t.getText()); } void bMinusPressed(ActionEvent e) { b = true; action = '-'; op1 = Double.parseDouble(t.getText()); } void bMulPressed(ActionEvent e) { b = true; action = '*'; op1 = Double.parseDouble(t.getText()); } void bDivPressed(ActionEvent e) { b = true; action = '/'; op1 = Double.parseDouble(t.getText()); } void bEqpressed(ActionEvent e) { op2 = Double.parseDouble(t.getText()); doCal(); } void doCal() { switch (action) { case '+': result = op1 + op2; break; case '-': result = op1 - op2; break; case '*': result = op1 * op2; break; case '/': result = op1 / op2; break; } t.setText(String.valueOf(result)); } public static void main(String[] args) { new cal1().setVisible(true); } JButton b0; JButton b1; JButton b2; JButton b3; JButton b4; JButton b5; JButton b6; JButton b7; JButton b8; JButton b9; JButton bDot; JButton bPlus; JButton bMinus; JButton bMul; JButton bDiv; JButton bEq; JPanel display; JPanel numpad; JTextField t; }

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  • Valgrind says "stack allocation," I say "heap allocation"

    - by Joel J. Adamson
    Dear Friends, I am trying to trace a segfault with valgrind. I get the following message from valgrind: ==3683== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==3683== at 0x4C277C5: sparse_mat_mat_kron (sparse.c:165) ==3683== by 0x4C2706E: rec_mating (rec.c:176) ==3683== by 0x401C1C: age_dep_iterate (age_dep.c:287) ==3683== by 0x4014CB: main (age_dep.c:92) ==3683== Uninitialised value was created by a stack allocation ==3683== at 0x401848: age_dep_init_params (age_dep.c:131) ==3683== ==3683== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==3683== at 0x4C277C7: sparse_mat_mat_kron (sparse.c:165) ==3683== by 0x4C2706E: rec_mating (rec.c:176) ==3683== by 0x401C1C: age_dep_iterate (age_dep.c:287) ==3683== by 0x4014CB: main (age_dep.c:92) ==3683== Uninitialised value was created by a stack allocation ==3683== at 0x401848: age_dep_init_params (age_dep.c:131) However, here's the offending line: /* allocate mating table */ age_dep_data->mtable = malloc (age_dep_data->geno * sizeof (double *)); if (age_dep_data->mtable == NULL) error (ENOMEM, ENOMEM, nullmsg, __LINE__); for (int j = 0; j < age_dep_data->geno; j++) { 131=> age_dep_data->mtable[j] = calloc (age_dep_data->geno, sizeof (double)); if (age_dep_data->mtable[j] == NULL) error (ENOMEM, ENOMEM, nullmsg, __LINE__); } What gives? I thought any call to malloc or calloc allocated heap space; there is no other variable allocated here, right? Is it possible there's another allocation going on (the offending stack allocation) that I'm not seeing? You asked to see the code, here goes: /* Copyright 2010 Joel J. Adamson <[email protected]> $Id: age_dep.c 1010 2010-04-21 19:19:16Z joel $ age_dep.c:main file Joel J. Adamson -- http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj Servedio Lab University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3280, Coker Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280 This file is part of an investigation of age-dependent sexual selection. This code is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with haploid. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ #include "age_dep.h" /* global variables */ extern struct argp age_dep_argp; /* global error message variables */ char * nullmsg = "Null pointer: %i"; /* error message for conversions: */ char * errmsg = "Representation error: %s"; /* precision for formatted output: */ const char prec[] = "%-#9.8f "; const size_t age_max = AGEMAX; /* maximum age of males */ static int keep_going_p = 1; int main (int argc, char ** argv) { /* often used counters: */ int i, j; /* read the command line */ struct age_dep_args age_dep_args = { NULL, NULL, NULL }; argp_parse (&age_dep_argp, argc, argv, 0, 0, &age_dep_args); /* set the parameters here: */ /* initialize an age_dep_params structure, set the members */ age_dep_params_t * params = malloc (sizeof (age_dep_params_t)); if (params == NULL) error (ENOMEM, ENOMEM, nullmsg, __LINE__); age_dep_init_params (params, &age_dep_args); /* initialize frequencies: this initializes a list of pointers to initial frqeuencies, terminated by a NULL pointer*/ params->freqs = age_dep_init (&age_dep_args); params->by = 0.0; /* what range of parameters do we want, and with what stepsize? */ /* we should go from 0 to half-of-theta with a step size of about 0.01 */ double from = 0.0; double to = params->theta / 2.0; double stepsz = 0.01; /* did you think I would spell the whole word? */ unsigned int numparts = floor(to / stepsz); do { #pragma omp parallel for private(i) firstprivate(params) \ shared(stepsz, numparts) for (i = 0; i < numparts; i++) { params->by = i * stepsz; int tries = 0; while (keep_going_p) { /* each time through, modify mfreqs and mating table, then go again */ keep_going_p = age_dep_iterate (params, ++tries); if (keep_going_p == ERANGE) error (ERANGE, ERANGE, "Failure to converge\n"); } fprintf (stdout, "%i iterations\n", tries); } /* for i < numparts */ params->freqs = params->freqs->next; } while (params->freqs->next != NULL); return 0; } inline double age_dep_pmate (double age_dep_t, unsigned int genot, double bp, double ba) { /* the probability of mating between these phenotypes */ /* the female preference depends on whether the female has the preference allele, the strength of preference (parameter bp) and the male phenotype (age_dep_t); if the female lacks the preference allele, then this will return 0, which is not quite accurate; it should return 1 */ return bits_isset (genot, CLOCI)? 1.0 - exp (-bp * age_dep_t) + ba: 1.0; } inline double age_dep_trait (int age, unsigned int genot, double by) { /* return the male trait, a function of the trait locus, age, the age-dependent scaling parameter (bx) and the males condition genotype */ double C; double T; /* get the male's condition genotype */ C = (double) bits_popcount (bits_extract (0, CLOCI, genot)); /* get his trait genotype */ T = bits_isset (genot, CLOCI + 1)? 1.0: 0.0; /* return the trait value */ return T * by * exp (age * C); } int age_dep_iterate (age_dep_params_t * data, unsigned int tries) { /* main driver routine */ /* number of bytes for female frequencies */ size_t geno = data->age_dep_data->geno; size_t genosize = geno * sizeof (double); /* female frequencies are equal to male frequencies at birth (before selection) */ double ffreqs[geno]; if (ffreqs == NULL) error (ENOMEM, ENOMEM, nullmsg, __LINE__); /* do not set! Use memcpy (we need to alter male frequencies (selection) without altering female frequencies) */ memmove (ffreqs, data->freqs->freqs[0], genosize); /* for (int i = 0; i < geno; i++) */ /* ffreqs[i] = data->freqs->freqs[0][i]; */ #ifdef PRMTABLE age_dep_pr_mfreqs (data); #endif /* PRMTABLE */ /* natural selection: */ age_dep_ns (data); /* normalized mating table with new frequencies */ age_dep_norm_mtable (ffreqs, data); #ifdef PRMTABLE age_dep_pr_mtable (data); #endif /* PRMTABLE */ double * newfreqs; /* mutate here */ /* i.e. get the new frequency of 0-year-olds using recombination; */ newfreqs = rec_mating (data->age_dep_data); /* return block */ { if (sim_stop_ck (data->freqs->freqs[0], newfreqs, GENO, TOL) == 0) { /* if we have converged, stop the iterations and handle the data */ age_dep_sim_out (data, stdout); return 0; } else if (tries > MAXTRIES) return ERANGE; else { /* advance generations */ for (int j = age_max - 1; j < 0; j--) memmove (data->freqs->freqs[j], data->freqs->freqs[j-1], genosize); /* advance the first age-class */ memmove (data->freqs->freqs[0], newfreqs, genosize); return 1; } } } void age_dep_ns (age_dep_params_t * data) { /* calculate the new frequency of genotypes given additive fitness and selection coefficient s */ size_t geno = data->age_dep_data->geno; double w[geno]; double wbar, dtheta, ttheta, dcond, tcond; double t, cond; /* fitness parameters */ double mu, nu; mu = data->wparams[0]; nu = data->wparams[1]; /* calculate fitness */ for (int j = 0; j < age_max; j++) { int i; for (i = 0; i < geno; i++) { /* calculate male trait: */ t = age_dep_trait(j, i, data->by); /* calculate condition: */ cond = (double) bits_popcount (bits_extract(0, CLOCI, i)); /* trait-based fitness term */ dtheta = data->theta - t; ttheta = (dtheta * dtheta) / (2.0 * nu * nu); /* condition-based fitness term */ dcond = CLOCI - cond; tcond = (dcond * dcond) / (2.0 * mu * mu); /* calculate male fitness */ w[i] = 1 + exp(-tcond) - exp(-ttheta); } /* calculate mean fitness */ /* as long as we calculate wbar before altering any values of freqs[], we're safe */ wbar = gen_mean (data->freqs->freqs[j], w, geno); for (i = 0; i < geno; i++) data->freqs->freqs[j][i] = (data->freqs->freqs[j][i] * w[i]) / wbar; } } void age_dep_norm_mtable (double * ffreqs, age_dep_params_t * params) { /* this function produces a single mating table that forms the input for recombination () */ /* i is female genotype; j is male genotype; k is male age */ int i,j,k; double norm_denom; double trait; size_t geno = params->age_dep_data->geno; for (i = 0; i < geno; i++) { double norm_mtable[geno]; /* initialize the denominator: */ norm_denom = 0.0; /* find the probability of mating and add it to the denominator */ for (j = 0; j < geno; j++) { /* initialize entry: */ norm_mtable[j] = 0.0; for (k = 0; k < age_max; k++) { trait = age_dep_trait (k, j, params->by); norm_mtable[j] += age_dep_pmate (trait, i, params->bp, params->ba) * (params->freqs->freqs)[k][j]; } norm_denom += norm_mtable[j]; } /* now calculate entry (i,j) */ for (j = 0; j < geno; j++) params->age_dep_data->mtable[i][j] = (ffreqs[i] * norm_mtable[j]) / norm_denom; } } My current suspicion is the array newfreqs: I can't memmove, memcpy or assign a stack variable then hope it will persist, can I? rec_mating() returns double *.

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  • 256 Windows Azure Worker Roles, Windows Kinect and a 90's Text-Based Ray-Tracer

    - by Alan Smith
    For a couple of years I have been demoing a simple render farm hosted in Windows Azure using worker roles and the Azure Storage service. At the start of the presentation I deploy an Azure application that uses 16 worker roles to render a 1,500 frame 3D ray-traced animation. At the end of the presentation, when the animation was complete, I would play the animation delete the Azure deployment. The standing joke with the audience was that it was that it was a “$2 demo”, as the compute charges for running the 16 instances for an hour was $1.92, factor in the bandwidth charges and it’s a couple of dollars. The point of the demo is that it highlights one of the great benefits of cloud computing, you pay for what you use, and if you need massive compute power for a short period of time using Windows Azure can work out very cost effective. The “$2 demo” was great for presenting at user groups and conferences in that it could be deployed to Azure, used to render an animation, and then removed in a one hour session. I have always had the idea of doing something a bit more impressive with the demo, and scaling it from a “$2 demo” to a “$30 demo”. The challenge was to create a visually appealing animation in high definition format and keep the demo time down to one hour.  This article will take a run through how I achieved this. Ray Tracing Ray tracing, a technique for generating high quality photorealistic images, gained popularity in the 90’s with companies like Pixar creating feature length computer animations, and also the emergence of shareware text-based ray tracers that could run on a home PC. In order to render a ray traced image, the ray of light that would pass from the view point must be tracked until it intersects with an object. At the intersection, the color, reflectiveness, transparency, and refractive index of the object are used to calculate if the ray will be reflected or refracted. Each pixel may require thousands of calculations to determine what color it will be in the rendered image. Pin-Board Toys Having very little artistic talent and a basic understanding of maths I decided to focus on an animation that could be modeled fairly easily and would look visually impressive. I’ve always liked the pin-board desktop toys that become popular in the 80’s and when I was working as a 3D animator back in the 90’s I always had the idea of creating a 3D ray-traced animation of a pin-board, but never found the energy to do it. Even if I had a go at it, the render time to produce an animation that would look respectable on a 486 would have been measured in months. PolyRay Back in 1995 I landed my first real job, after spending three years being a beach-ski-climbing-paragliding-bum, and was employed to create 3D ray-traced animations for a CD-ROM that school kids would use to learn physics. I had got into the strange and wonderful world of text-based ray tracing, and was using a shareware ray-tracer called PolyRay. PolyRay takes a text file describing a scene as input and, after a few hours processing on a 486, produced a high quality ray-traced image. The following is an example of a basic PolyRay scene file. background Midnight_Blue   static define matte surface { ambient 0.1 diffuse 0.7 } define matte_white texture { matte { color white } } define matte_black texture { matte { color dark_slate_gray } } define position_cylindrical 3 define lookup_sawtooth 1 define light_wood <0.6, 0.24, 0.1> define median_wood <0.3, 0.12, 0.03> define dark_wood <0.05, 0.01, 0.005>     define wooden texture { noise surface { ambient 0.2  diffuse 0.7  specular white, 0.5 microfacet Reitz 10 position_fn position_cylindrical position_scale 1  lookup_fn lookup_sawtooth octaves 1 turbulence 1 color_map( [0.0, 0.2, light_wood, light_wood] [0.2, 0.3, light_wood, median_wood] [0.3, 0.4, median_wood, light_wood] [0.4, 0.7, light_wood, light_wood] [0.7, 0.8, light_wood, median_wood] [0.8, 0.9, median_wood, light_wood] [0.9, 1.0, light_wood, dark_wood]) } } define glass texture { surface { ambient 0 diffuse 0 specular 0.2 reflection white, 0.1 transmission white, 1, 1.5 }} define shiny surface { ambient 0.1 diffuse 0.6 specular white, 0.6 microfacet Phong 7  } define steely_blue texture { shiny { color black } } define chrome texture { surface { color white ambient 0.0 diffuse 0.2 specular 0.4 microfacet Phong 10 reflection 0.8 } }   viewpoint {     from <4.000, -1.000, 1.000> at <0.000, 0.000, 0.000> up <0, 1, 0> angle 60     resolution 640, 480 aspect 1.6 image_format 0 }       light <-10, 30, 20> light <-10, 30, -20>   object { disc <0, -2, 0>, <0, 1, 0>, 30 wooden }   object { sphere <0.000, 0.000, 0.000>, 1.00 chrome } object { cylinder <0.000, 0.000, 0.000>, <0.000, 0.000, -4.000>, 0.50 chrome }   After setting up the background and defining colors and textures, the viewpoint is specified. The “camera” is located at a point in 3D space, and it looks towards another point. The angle, image resolution, and aspect ratio are specified. Two lights are present in the image at defined coordinates. The three objects in the image are a wooden disc to represent a table top, and a sphere and cylinder that intersect to form a pin that will be used for the pin board toy in the final animation. When the image is rendered, the following image is produced. The pins are modeled with a chrome surface, so they reflect the environment around them. Note that the scale of the pin shaft is not correct, this will be fixed later. Modeling the Pin Board The frame of the pin-board is made up of three boxes, and six cylinders, the front box is modeled using a clear, slightly reflective solid, with the same refractive index of glass. The other shapes are modeled as metal. object { box <-5.5, -1.5, 1>, <5.5, 5.5, 1.2> glass } object { box <-5.5, -1.5, -0.04>, <5.5, 5.5, -0.09> steely_blue } object { box <-5.5, -1.5, -0.52>, <5.5, 5.5, -0.59> steely_blue } object { cylinder <-5.2, -1.2, 1.4>, <-5.2, -1.2, -0.74>, 0.2 steely_blue } object { cylinder <5.2, -1.2, 1.4>, <5.2, -1.2, -0.74>, 0.2 steely_blue } object { cylinder <-5.2, 5.2, 1.4>, <-5.2, 5.2, -0.74>, 0.2 steely_blue } object { cylinder <5.2, 5.2, 1.4>, <5.2, 5.2, -0.74>, 0.2 steely_blue } object { cylinder <0, -1.2, 1.4>, <0, -1.2, -0.74>, 0.2 steely_blue } object { cylinder <0, 5.2, 1.4>, <0, 5.2, -0.74>, 0.2 steely_blue }   In order to create the matrix of pins that make up the pin board I used a basic console application with a few nested loops to create two intersecting matrixes of pins, which models the layout used in the pin boards. The resulting image is shown below. The pin board contains 11,481 pins, with the scene file containing 23,709 lines of code. For the complete animation 2,000 scene files will be created, which is over 47 million lines of code. Each pin in the pin-board will slide out a specific distance when an object is pressed into the back of the board. This is easily modeled by setting the Z coordinate of the pin to a specific value. In order to set all of the pins in the pin-board to the correct position, a bitmap image can be used. The position of the pin can be set based on the color of the pixel at the appropriate position in the image. When the Windows Azure logo is used to set the Z coordinate of the pins, the following image is generated. The challenge now was to make a cool animation. The Azure Logo is fine, but it is static. Using a normal video to animate the pins would not work; the colors in the video would not be the same as the depth of the objects from the camera. In order to simulate the pin board accurately a series of frames from a depth camera could be used. Windows Kinect The Kenect controllers for the X-Box 360 and Windows feature a depth camera. The Kinect SDK for Windows provides a programming interface for Kenect, providing easy access for .NET developers to the Kinect sensors. The Kinect Explorer provided with the Kinect SDK is a great starting point for exploring Kinect from a developers perspective. Both the X-Box 360 Kinect and the Windows Kinect will work with the Kinect SDK, the Windows Kinect is required for commercial applications, but the X-Box Kinect can be used for hobby projects. The Windows Kinect has the advantage of providing a mode to allow depth capture with objects closer to the camera, which makes for a more accurate depth image for setting the pin positions. Creating a Depth Field Animation The depth field animation used to set the positions of the pin in the pin board was created using a modified version of the Kinect Explorer sample application. In order to simulate the pin board accurately, a small section of the depth range from the depth sensor will be used. Any part of the object in front of the depth range will result in a white pixel; anything behind the depth range will be black. Within the depth range the pixels in the image will be set to RGB values from 0,0,0 to 255,255,255. A screen shot of the modified Kinect Explorer application is shown below. The Kinect Explorer sample application was modified to include slider controls that are used to set the depth range that forms the image from the depth stream. This allows the fine tuning of the depth image that is required for simulating the position of the pins in the pin board. The Kinect Explorer was also modified to record a series of images from the depth camera and save them as a sequence JPEG files that will be used to animate the pins in the animation the Start and Stop buttons are used to start and stop the image recording. En example of one of the depth images is shown below. Once a series of 2,000 depth images has been captured, the task of creating the animation can begin. Rendering a Test Frame In order to test the creation of frames and get an approximation of the time required to render each frame a test frame was rendered on-premise using PolyRay. The output of the rendering process is shown below. The test frame contained 23,629 primitive shapes, most of which are the spheres and cylinders that are used for the 11,800 or so pins in the pin board. The 1280x720 image contains 921,600 pixels, but as anti-aliasing was used the number of rays that were calculated was 4,235,777, with 3,478,754,073 object boundaries checked. The test frame of the pin board with the depth field image applied is shown below. The tracing time for the test frame was 4 minutes 27 seconds, which means rendering the2,000 frames in the animation would take over 148 hours, or a little over 6 days. Although this is much faster that an old 486, waiting almost a week to see the results of an animation would make it challenging for animators to create, view, and refine their animations. It would be much better if the animation could be rendered in less than one hour. Windows Azure Worker Roles The cost of creating an on-premise render farm to render animations increases in proportion to the number of servers. The table below shows the cost of servers for creating a render farm, assuming a cost of $500 per server. Number of Servers Cost 1 $500 16 $8,000 256 $128,000   As well as the cost of the servers, there would be additional costs for networking, racks etc. Hosting an environment of 256 servers on-premise would require a server room with cooling, and some pretty hefty power cabling. The Windows Azure compute services provide worker roles, which are ideal for performing processor intensive compute tasks. With the scalability available in Windows Azure a job that takes 256 hours to complete could be perfumed using different numbers of worker roles. The time and cost of using 1, 16 or 256 worker roles is shown below. Number of Worker Roles Render Time Cost 1 256 hours $30.72 16 16 hours $30.72 256 1 hour $30.72   Using worker roles in Windows Azure provides the same cost for the 256 hour job, irrespective of the number of worker roles used. Provided the compute task can be broken down into many small units, and the worker role compute power can be used effectively, it makes sense to scale the application so that the task is completed quickly, making the results available in a timely fashion. The task of rendering 2,000 frames in an animation is one that can easily be broken down into 2,000 individual pieces, which can be performed by a number of worker roles. Creating a Render Farm in Windows Azure The architecture of the render farm is shown in the following diagram. The render farm is a hybrid application with the following components: ·         On-Premise o   Windows Kinect – Used combined with the Kinect Explorer to create a stream of depth images. o   Animation Creator – This application uses the depth images from the Kinect sensor to create scene description files for PolyRay. These files are then uploaded to the jobs blob container, and job messages added to the jobs queue. o   Process Monitor – This application queries the role instance lifecycle table and displays statistics about the render farm environment and render process. o   Image Downloader – This application polls the image queue and downloads the rendered animation files once they are complete. ·         Windows Azure o   Azure Storage – Queues and blobs are used for the scene description files and completed frames. A table is used to store the statistics about the rendering environment.   The architecture of each worker role is shown below.   The worker role is configured to use local storage, which provides file storage on the worker role instance that can be use by the applications to render the image and transform the format of the image. The service definition for the worker role with the local storage configuration highlighted is shown below. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <ServiceDefinition name="CloudRay" >   <WorkerRole name="CloudRayWorkerRole" vmsize="Small">     <Imports>     </Imports>     <ConfigurationSettings>       <Setting name="DataConnectionString" />     </ConfigurationSettings>     <LocalResources>       <LocalStorage name="RayFolder" cleanOnRoleRecycle="true" />     </LocalResources>   </WorkerRole> </ServiceDefinition>     The two executable programs, PolyRay.exe and DTA.exe are included in the Azure project, with Copy Always set as the property. PolyRay will take the scene description file and render it to a Truevision TGA file. As the TGA format has not seen much use since the mid 90’s it is converted to a JPG image using Dave's Targa Animator, another shareware application from the 90’s. Each worker roll will use the following process to render the animation frames. 1.       The worker process polls the job queue, if a job is available the scene description file is downloaded from blob storage to local storage. 2.       PolyRay.exe is started in a process with the appropriate command line arguments to render the image as a TGA file. 3.       DTA.exe is started in a process with the appropriate command line arguments convert the TGA file to a JPG file. 4.       The JPG file is uploaded from local storage to the images blob container. 5.       A message is placed on the images queue to indicate a new image is available for download. 6.       The job message is deleted from the job queue. 7.       The role instance lifecycle table is updated with statistics on the number of frames rendered by the worker role instance, and the CPU time used. The code for this is shown below. public override void Run() {     // Set environment variables     string polyRayPath = Path.Combine(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("RoleRoot"), PolyRayLocation);     string dtaPath = Path.Combine(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("RoleRoot"), DTALocation);       LocalResource rayStorage = RoleEnvironment.GetLocalResource("RayFolder");     string localStorageRootPath = rayStorage.RootPath;       JobQueue jobQueue = new JobQueue("renderjobs");     JobQueue downloadQueue = new JobQueue("renderimagedownloadjobs");     CloudRayBlob sceneBlob = new CloudRayBlob("scenes");     CloudRayBlob imageBlob = new CloudRayBlob("images");     RoleLifecycleDataSource roleLifecycleDataSource = new RoleLifecycleDataSource();       Frames = 0;       while (true)     {         // Get the render job from the queue         CloudQueueMessage jobMsg = jobQueue.Get();           if (jobMsg != null)         {             // Get the file details             string sceneFile = jobMsg.AsString;             string tgaFile = sceneFile.Replace(".pi", ".tga");             string jpgFile = sceneFile.Replace(".pi", ".jpg");               string sceneFilePath = Path.Combine(localStorageRootPath, sceneFile);             string tgaFilePath = Path.Combine(localStorageRootPath, tgaFile);             string jpgFilePath = Path.Combine(localStorageRootPath, jpgFile);               // Copy the scene file to local storage             sceneBlob.DownloadFile(sceneFilePath);               // Run the ray tracer.             string polyrayArguments =                 string.Format("\"{0}\" -o \"{1}\" -a 2", sceneFilePath, tgaFilePath);             Process polyRayProcess = new Process();             polyRayProcess.StartInfo.FileName =                 Path.Combine(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("RoleRoot"), polyRayPath);             polyRayProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = polyrayArguments;             polyRayProcess.Start();             polyRayProcess.WaitForExit();               // Convert the image             string dtaArguments =                 string.Format(" {0} /FJ /P{1}", tgaFilePath, Path.GetDirectoryName (jpgFilePath));             Process dtaProcess = new Process();             dtaProcess.StartInfo.FileName =                 Path.Combine(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("RoleRoot"), dtaPath);             dtaProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = dtaArguments;             dtaProcess.Start();             dtaProcess.WaitForExit();               // Upload the image to blob storage             imageBlob.UploadFile(jpgFilePath);               // Add a download job.             downloadQueue.Add(jpgFile);               // Delete the render job message             jobQueue.Delete(jobMsg);               Frames++;         }         else         {             Thread.Sleep(1000);         }           // Log the worker role activity.         roleLifecycleDataSource.Alive             ("CloudRayWorker", RoleLifecycleDataSource.RoleLifecycleId, Frames);     } }     Monitoring Worker Role Instance Lifecycle In order to get more accurate statistics about the lifecycle of the worker role instances used to render the animation data was tracked in an Azure storage table. The following class was used to track the worker role lifecycles in Azure storage.   public class RoleLifecycle : TableServiceEntity {     public string ServerName { get; set; }     public string Status { get; set; }     public DateTime StartTime { get; set; }     public DateTime EndTime { get; set; }     public long SecondsRunning { get; set; }     public DateTime LastActiveTime { get; set; }     public int Frames { get; set; }     public string Comment { get; set; }       public RoleLifecycle()     {     }       public RoleLifecycle(string roleName)     {         PartitionKey = roleName;         RowKey = Utils.GetAscendingRowKey();         Status = "Started";         StartTime = DateTime.UtcNow;         LastActiveTime = StartTime;         EndTime = StartTime;         SecondsRunning = 0;         Frames = 0;     } }     A new instance of this class is created and added to the storage table when the role starts. It is then updated each time the worker renders a frame to record the total number of frames rendered and the total processing time. These statistics are used be the monitoring application to determine the effectiveness of use of resources in the render farm. Rendering the Animation The Azure solution was deployed to Windows Azure with the service configuration set to 16 worker role instances. This allows for the application to be tested in the cloud environment, and the performance of the application determined. When I demo the application at conferences and user groups I often start with 16 instances, and then scale up the application to the full 256 instances. The configuration to run 16 instances is shown below. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <ServiceConfiguration serviceName="CloudRay" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceConfiguration" osFamily="1" osVersion="*">   <Role name="CloudRayWorkerRole">     <Instances count="16" />     <ConfigurationSettings>       <Setting name="DataConnectionString"         value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=cloudraydata;AccountKey=..." />     </ConfigurationSettings>   </Role> </ServiceConfiguration>     About six minutes after deploying the application the first worker roles become active and start to render the first frames of the animation. The CloudRay Monitor application displays an icon for each worker role instance, with a number indicating the number of frames that the worker role has rendered. The statistics on the left show the number of active worker roles and statistics about the render process. The render time is the time since the first worker role became active; the CPU time is the total amount of processing time used by all worker role instances to render the frames.   Five minutes after the first worker role became active the last of the 16 worker roles activated. By this time the first seven worker roles had each rendered one frame of the animation.   With 16 worker roles u and running it can be seen that one hour and 45 minutes CPU time has been used to render 32 frames with a render time of just under 10 minutes.     At this rate it would take over 10 hours to render the 2,000 frames of the full animation. In order to complete the animation in under an hour more processing power will be required. Scaling the render farm from 16 instances to 256 instances is easy using the new management portal. The slider is set to 256 instances, and the configuration saved. We do not need to re-deploy the application, and the 16 instances that are up and running will not be affected. Alternatively, the configuration file for the Azure service could be modified to specify 256 instances.   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <ServiceConfiguration serviceName="CloudRay" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceConfiguration" osFamily="1" osVersion="*">   <Role name="CloudRayWorkerRole">     <Instances count="256" />     <ConfigurationSettings>       <Setting name="DataConnectionString"         value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=cloudraydata;AccountKey=..." />     </ConfigurationSettings>   </Role> </ServiceConfiguration>     Six minutes after the new configuration has been applied 75 new worker roles have activated and are processing their first frames.   Five minutes later the full configuration of 256 worker roles is up and running. We can see that the average rate of frame rendering has increased from 3 to 12 frames per minute, and that over 17 hours of CPU time has been utilized in 23 minutes. In this test the time to provision 140 worker roles was about 11 minutes, which works out at about one every five seconds.   We are now half way through the rendering, with 1,000 frames complete. This has utilized just under three days of CPU time in a little over 35 minutes.   The animation is now complete, with 2,000 frames rendered in a little over 52 minutes. The CPU time used by the 256 worker roles is 6 days, 7 hours and 22 minutes with an average frame rate of 38 frames per minute. The rendering of the last 1,000 frames took 16 minutes 27 seconds, which works out at a rendering rate of 60 frames per minute. The frame counts in the server instances indicate that the use of a queue to distribute the workload has been very effective in distributing the load across the 256 worker role instances. The first 16 instances that were deployed first have rendered between 11 and 13 frames each, whilst the 240 instances that were added when the application was scaled have rendered between 6 and 9 frames each.   Completed Animation I’ve uploaded the completed animation to YouTube, a low resolution preview is shown below. Pin Board Animation Created using Windows Kinect and 256 Windows Azure Worker Roles   The animation can be viewed in 1280x720 resolution at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5jy6bvSxWc Effective Use of Resources According to the CloudRay monitor statistics the animation took 6 days, 7 hours and 22 minutes CPU to render, this works out at 152 hours of compute time, rounded up to the nearest hour. As the usage for the worker role instances are billed for the full hour, it may have been possible to render the animation using fewer than 256 worker roles. When deciding the optimal usage of resources, the time required to provision and start the worker roles must also be considered. In the demo I started with 16 worker roles, and then scaled the application to 256 worker roles. It would have been more optimal to start the application with maybe 200 worker roles, and utilized the full hour that I was being billed for. This would, however, have prevented showing the ease of scalability of the application. The new management portal displays the CPU usage across the worker roles in the deployment. The average CPU usage across all instances is 93.27%, with over 99% used when all the instances are up and running. This shows that the worker role resources are being used very effectively. Grid Computing Scenarios Although I am using this scenario for a hobby project, there are many scenarios where a large amount of compute power is required for a short period of time. Windows Azure provides a great platform for developing these types of grid computing applications, and can work out very cost effective. ·         Windows Azure can provide massive compute power, on demand, in a matter of minutes. ·         The use of queues to manage the load balancing of jobs between role instances is a simple and effective solution. ·         Using a cloud-computing platform like Windows Azure allows proof-of-concept scenarios to be tested and evaluated on a very low budget. ·         No charges for inbound data transfer makes the uploading of large data sets to Windows Azure Storage services cost effective. (Transaction charges still apply.) Tips for using Windows Azure for Grid Computing Scenarios I found the implementation of a render farm using Windows Azure a fairly simple scenario to implement. I was impressed by ease of scalability that Azure provides, and by the short time that the application took to scale from 16 to 256 worker role instances. In this case it was around 13 minutes, in other tests it took between 10 and 20 minutes. The following tips may be useful when implementing a grid computing project in Windows Azure. ·         Using an Azure Storage queue to load-balance the units of work across multiple worker roles is simple and very effective. The design I have used in this scenario could easily scale to many thousands of worker role instances. ·         Windows Azure accounts are typically limited to 20 cores. If you need to use more than this, a call to support and a credit card check will be required. ·         Be aware of how the billing model works. You will be charged for worker role instances for the full clock our in which the instance is deployed. Schedule the workload to start just after the clock hour has started. ·         Monitor the utilization of the resources you are provisioning, ensure that you are not paying for worker roles that are idle. ·         If you are deploying third party applications to worker roles, you may well run into licensing issues. Purchasing software licenses on a per-processor basis when using hundreds of processors for a short time period would not be cost effective. ·         Third party software may also require installation onto the worker roles, which can be accomplished using start-up tasks. Bear in mind that adding a startup task and possible re-boot will add to the time required for the worker role instance to start and activate. An alternative may be to use a prepared VM and use VM roles. ·         Consider using the Windows Azure Autoscaling Application Block (WASABi) to autoscale the worker roles in your application. When using a large number of worker roles, the utilization must be carefully monitored, if the scaling algorithms are not optimal it could get very expensive!

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  • Java JPanel not showing up....

    - by user69514
    I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but the text for my JPanels is not showing up. I just get the question number text, but the question is not showing up. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.event.*; class NewFrame extends JFrame { JPanel centerpanel; // For the questions. CardLayout card; // For the centerpanel. JTextField tf; // Used in question 1. boolean // Store selections for Q2. q2Option1, q2Option2, q2Option3, q2Option4; JList q4List; // For question 4. double // Score on each question. q1Score = 0, q2Score = 0, q3Score = 0, q4Score = 0; // Constructor. public NewFrame (int width, int height) { this.setTitle ("Snoot Club Membership Test"); this.setResizable (true); this.setSize (width, height); Container cPane = this.getContentPane(); // cPane.setLayout (new BorderLayout()); // First, a welcome message, as a Label. JLabel L = new JLabel ("<html><b>Are you elitist enough for our exclusive club?" + " <br>Fill out the form and find out</b></html>"); L.setForeground (Color.blue); cPane.add (L, BorderLayout.NORTH); // Now the center panel with the questions. card = new CardLayout (); centerpanel = new JPanel (); centerpanel.setLayout (card); centerpanel.setOpaque (false); // Each question will be created in a separate method. // The cardlayout requires a label as second parameter. centerpanel.add (firstQuestion (), "1"); centerpanel.add (secondQuestion(), "2"); centerpanel.add (thirdQuestion(), "3"); centerpanel.add (fourthQuestion(), "4"); cPane.add (centerpanel, BorderLayout.CENTER); // Next, a panel of four buttons at the bottom. // The four buttons: quit, submit, next-question, previous-question. JPanel bottomPanel = getBottomPanel (); cPane.add (bottomPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH); // Finally, show the frame. this.setVisible (true); } // No-parameter constructor. public NewFrame () { this (500, 300); } // The first question uses labels for the question and // gets input via a textfield. A panel containing all // these things is returned. The question asks for // a vacation destination: the more exotic the location, // the higher the score. JPanel firstQuestion () { // We will package everything into a panel and return the panel. JPanel subpanel = new JPanel (); // We will place things in a single column, so // a GridLayout with one column is appropriate. subpanel.setLayout (new GridLayout (8,1)); JLabel L1 = new JLabel ("Question 1:"); L1.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L1); JLabel L2 = new JLabel (" Select a vacation destination"); L2.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L2); JLabel L3 = new JLabel (" 1. Baltimore"); L3.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L3); JLabel L4 = new JLabel (" 2. Disneyland"); L4.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L4); JLabel L5 = new JLabel (" 3. Grand Canyon"); L5.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L5); JLabel L6 = new JLabel (" 4. French Riviera"); L6.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L6); JLabel L7 = new JLabel ("Enter 1,2,3 or 4 below:"); L7.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L7); // Here's the textfield to get user-input. tf = new JTextField (); tf.addActionListener ( new ActionListener () { // This interface has only one method. public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent a) { String q1String = a.getActionCommand(); if (q1String.equals ("2")) q1Score = 2; else if (q1String.equals ("3")) q1Score = 3; else if (q1String.equals ("4")) q1Score = 4; else q1Score = 1; } } ); subpanel.add (tf); return subpanel; } // For the second question, a collection of checkboxes // will be used. More than one selection can be made. // A listener is required for each checkbox. The state // of each checkbox is recorded. JPanel secondQuestion () { JPanel subpanel = new JPanel (); subpanel.setLayout (new GridLayout (7,1)); JLabel L1 = new JLabel ("Question 2:"); L1.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L1); JLabel L2 = new JLabel (" Select ONE OR MORE things that "); L2.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L2); JLabel L3 = new JLabel (" you put into your lunch sandwich"); L3.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L3); // Initialize the selections to false. q2Option1 = q2Option2 = q2Option3 = q2Option4 = false; // First checkbox. JCheckBox c1 = new JCheckBox ("Ham, beef or turkey"); c1.addItemListener ( new ItemListener () { public void itemStateChanged (ItemEvent i) { JCheckBox c = (JCheckBox) i.getSource(); q2Option1 = c.isSelected(); } } ); subpanel.add (c1); // Second checkbox. JCheckBox c2 = new JCheckBox ("Cheese"); c2.addItemListener ( new ItemListener () { // This is where we will react to a change in checkbox. public void itemStateChanged (ItemEvent i) { JCheckBox c = (JCheckBox) i.getSource(); q2Option2 = c.isSelected(); } } ); subpanel.add (c2); // Third checkbox. JCheckBox c3 = new JCheckBox ("Sun-dried Arugula leaves"); c3.addItemListener ( new ItemListener () { public void itemStateChanged (ItemEvent i) { JCheckBox c = (JCheckBox) i.getSource(); q2Option3 = c.isSelected(); } } ); subpanel.add (c3); // Fourth checkbox. JCheckBox c4 = new JCheckBox ("Lemon-enhanced smoked Siberian caviar"); c4.addItemListener ( new ItemListener () { public void itemStateChanged (ItemEvent i) { JCheckBox c = (JCheckBox) i.getSource(); q2Option4 = c.isSelected(); } } ); subpanel.add (c4); return subpanel; } // The third question allows only one among four choices // to be selected. We will use radio buttons. JPanel thirdQuestion () { JPanel subpanel = new JPanel (); subpanel.setLayout (new GridLayout (6,1)); JLabel L1 = new JLabel ("Question 3:"); L1.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L1); JLabel L2 = new JLabel (" And which mustard do you use?"); L2.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L2); // First, create the ButtonGroup instance. // We will add radio buttons to this group. ButtonGroup bGroup = new ButtonGroup(); // First checkbox. JRadioButton r1 = new JRadioButton ("Who cares?"); r1.addItemListener ( new ItemListener () { public void itemStateChanged (ItemEvent i) { JRadioButton r = (JRadioButton) i.getSource(); if (r.isSelected()) q3Score = 1; } } ); bGroup.add (r1); subpanel.add (r1); // Second checkbox. JRadioButton r2 = new JRadioButton ("Safeway Brand"); r2.addItemListener ( new ItemListener () { public void itemStateChanged (ItemEvent i) { JRadioButton r = (JRadioButton) i.getSource(); if (r.isSelected()) q3Score = 2; } } ); bGroup.add (r2); subpanel.add (r2); // Third checkbox. JRadioButton r3 = new JRadioButton ("Fleishman's"); r3.addItemListener ( new ItemListener () { public void itemStateChanged (ItemEvent i) { JRadioButton r = (JRadioButton) i.getSource(); if (r.isSelected()) q3Score = 3; } } ); bGroup.add (r3); subpanel.add (r3); // Fourth checkbox. JRadioButton r4 = new JRadioButton ("Grey Poupon"); r4.addItemListener ( new ItemListener () { public void itemStateChanged (ItemEvent i) { JRadioButton r = (JRadioButton) i.getSource(); if (r.isSelected()) q3Score = 4; } } ); bGroup.add (r4); subpanel.add (r4); return subpanel; } // For the fourth question we will use a drop-down Choice. JPanel fourthQuestion () { JPanel subpanel = new JPanel (); subpanel.setLayout (new GridLayout (3,1)); JLabel L1 = new JLabel ("Question 4:"); L1.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L1); JLabel L2 = new JLabel (" Your movie preference, among these:"); L2.setFont (new Font ("SansSerif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L2); // Create a JList with options. String[] movies = { "Lethal Weapon IV", "Titanic", "Saving Private Ryan", "Le Art Movie avec subtitles"}; q4List = new JList (movies); q4Score = 1; q4List.addListSelectionListener ( new ListSelectionListener () { public void valueChanged (ListSelectionEvent e) { q4Score = 1 + q4List.getSelectedIndex(); } } ); subpanel.add (q4List); return subpanel; } void computeResult () { // Clear the center panel. centerpanel.removeAll(); // Create a new panel to display in the center. JPanel subpanel = new JPanel (new GridLayout (5,1)); // Score on question 1. JLabel L1 = new JLabel ("Score on question 1: " + q1Score); L1.setFont (new Font ("Serif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L1); // Score on question 2. if (q2Option1) q2Score += 1; if (q2Option2) q2Score += 2; if (q2Option3) q2Score += 3; if (q2Option4) q2Score += 4; q2Score = 0.6 * q2Score; JLabel L2 = new JLabel ("Score on question 2: " + q2Score); L2.setFont (new Font ("Serif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L2); // Score on question 3. JLabel L3 = new JLabel ("Score on question 3: " + q3Score); L3.setFont (new Font ("Serif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L3); // Score on question 4. JLabel L4 = new JLabel ("Score on question 4: " + q4Score); L4.setFont (new Font ("Serif", Font.ITALIC, 15)); subpanel.add (L4); // Weighted score. double avg = (q1Score + q2Score + q3Score + q4Score) / (double) 4; JLabel L5; if (avg <= 3.5) L5 = new JLabel ("Your average score: " + avg + " - REJECTED!"); else L5 = new JLabel ("Your average score: " + avg + " - WELCOME!"); L5.setFont (new Font ("Serif", Font.BOLD, 20)); //L5.setAlignment (JLabel.CENTER); subpanel.add (L5); // Now add the new subpanel. centerpanel.add (subpanel, "5"); // Need to mark the centerpanel as "altered" centerpanel.invalidate(); // Everything "invalid" (e.g., the centerpanel above) // is now re-computed. this.validate(); } JPanel getBottomPanel () { // Create a panel into which we will place buttons. JPanel bottomPanel = new JPanel (); // A "previous-question" button. JButton backward = new JButton ("Previous question"); backward.setFont (new Font ("Serif", Font.PLAIN | Font.BOLD, 15)); backward.addActionListener ( new ActionListener () { public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent a) { // Go back in the card layout. card.previous (centerpanel); } } ); bottomPanel.add (backward); // A forward button. JButton forward = new JButton ("Next question"); forward.setFont (new Font ("Serif", Font.PLAIN | Font.BOLD, 15)); forward.addActionListener ( new ActionListener () { public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent a) { // Go forward in the card layout. card.next (centerpanel); } } ); bottomPanel.add (forward); // A submit button. JButton submit = new JButton ("Submit"); submit.setFont (new Font ("Serif", Font.PLAIN | Font.BOLD, 15)); submit.addActionListener ( new ActionListener () { public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent a) { // Perform submit task. computeResult(); } } ); bottomPanel.add (submit); JButton quitb = new JButton ("Quit"); quitb.setFont (new Font ("Serif", Font.PLAIN | Font.BOLD, 15)); quitb.addActionListener ( new ActionListener () { public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent a) { System.exit (0); } } ); bottomPanel.add (quitb); return bottomPanel; } } public class Survey { public static void main (String[] argv) { NewFrame nf = new NewFrame (600, 300); } }

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  • validating an XML schema with empty attributes

    - by AdRock
    I am having trouble validating my xml schema. I get these errors on the schema 113: 18 s4s-elt-invalid-content.1: The content of '#AnonType_user' is invalid. 164: 17 s4s-elt-invalid-content.1: The content of '#AnonType_festival' is invalid. Element 'sequence' is invalid, misplaced, or occurs too often. and becuase of those 2 errors, i am getting loads of the same error. This is becuase the attribute id of the festival tag may be empty becuase there is not data for that festival cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a valid value for 'integer'. cvc-attribute.3: The value '' of attribute 'id' on element 'festival' is not valid with respect to its type, 'integer'. The lines in the schema causing the problems are <xs:element name="user"> <xs:complexType> <xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:integer"/> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="personal"/> <xs:element ref="account"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="festival"> <xs:complexType> <xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:integer" user="optional"/> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="event"/> <xs:element ref="contact"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> This is a snippet from my XML file. One user has a festival and the other doesn't <member> <user id="3"> <personal> <name>Skye Saunders</name> <sex>Female</sex> <address1>31 Anns Court</address1> <address2></address2> <city>Cirencester</city> <county>Gloucestershire</county> <postcode>GL7 1JG</postcode> <telephone>01958303514</telephone> <mobile>07260491667</mobile> <email>[email protected]</email> </personal> <account> <username>BigUndecided</username> <password>ea297847f80e046ca24a8621f4068594</password> <userlevel>2</userlevel> <signupdate>2010-03-26T09:23:50</signupdate> </account> </user> <festival id=""> <event> <eventname></eventname> <url></url> <datefrom></datefrom> <dateto></dateto> <location></location> <eventpostcode></eventpostcode> <coords> <lat></lat> <lng></lng> </coords> </event> <contact> <conname></conname> <conaddress1></conaddress1> <conaddress2></conaddress2> <concity></concity> <concounty></concounty> <conpostcode></conpostcode> <contelephone></contelephone> <conmobile></conmobile> <fax></fax> <conemail></conemail> </contact> </festival> </member> <member> <user id="4"> <personal> <name>Connor Lawson</name> <sex>Male</sex> <address1>12 Ash Way</address1> <address2></address2> <city>Swindon</city> <county>Wiltshire</county> <postcode>SN3 6GS</postcode> <telephone>01791928119</telephone> <mobile>07338695664</mobile> <email>[email protected]</email> </personal> <account> <username>iTuneStinker</username> <password>3a1f5fda21a07bfff20c41272bae7192</password> <userlevel>3</userlevel> <signupdate>2010-03-26T09:23:50</signupdate> </account> </user> <festival id="1"> <event> <eventname>Oxford Folk Festival</eventname> <url>http://www.oxfordfolkfestival.com/</url> <datefrom>2010-04-07</datefrom> <dateto>2010-04-09</dateto> <location>Oxford</location> <eventpostcode>OX19BE</eventpostcode> <coords> <lat>51.735640</lat> <lng>-1.276136</lng> </coords> </event> <contact> <conname>Stuart Vincent</conname> <conaddress1>P.O. Box 642</conaddress1> <conaddress2></conaddress2> <concity>Oxford</concity> <concounty>Bedfordshire</concounty> <conpostcode>OX13BY</conpostcode> <contelephone>01865 79073</contelephone> <conmobile></conmobile> <fax></fax> <conemail>[email protected]</conemail> </contact> </festival> </member> This is my schema <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified"> <xs:simpleType name="postcode"> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> <xs:minLength value="6"/> <xs:maxLength value="8"/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> <xs:simpleType name="telephone"> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> <xs:minLength value="10"/> <xs:maxLength value="13"/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> <xs:simpleType name="mobile"> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> <xs:minLength value="11"/> <xs:maxLength value="11"/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> <xs:simpleType name="password"> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> <xs:minLength value="32"/> <xs:maxLength value="32"/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> <xs:simpleType name="userlevel"> <xs:restriction base="xs:integer"> <xs:enumeration value="1"/> <xs:enumeration value="2"/> <xs:enumeration value="3"/> <xs:enumeration value="4"/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> <xs:simpleType name="county"> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> <xs:enumeration value="Bedfordshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Berkshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Bristol"/> <xs:enumeration value="Buckinghamshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Cambridgeshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Cheshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Cleveland"/> <xs:enumeration value="Cornwall"/> <xs:enumeration value="Cumberland"/> <xs:enumeration value="Derbyshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Devon"/> <xs:enumeration value="Dorset"/> <xs:enumeration value="Durham"/> <xs:enumeration value="East Ridings Of Yorkshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Essex"/> <xs:enumeration value="Gloucestershire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Hampshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Herefordshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Hertfordshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Huntingdonshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Isle Of Man"/> <xs:enumeration value="Kent"/> <xs:enumeration value="Lancashire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Leicestershire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Lincolnshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="London"/> <xs:enumeration value="Middlesex"/> <xs:enumeration value="Norfolk"/> <xs:enumeration value="North Yorkshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Northamptonshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Northumberland"/> <xs:enumeration value="Nottinghamshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Oxfordshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Rutland"/> <xs:enumeration value="Shropshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Somerset"/> <xs:enumeration value="South Yorkshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Staffordshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Suffolk"/> <xs:enumeration value="Surrey"/> <xs:enumeration value="Sussex"/> <xs:enumeration value="Tyne and Wear"/> <xs:enumeration value="Warwickshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="West Yorkshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Westmorland"/> <xs:enumeration value="Wiltshire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Wirral"/> <xs:enumeration value="Worcestershire"/> <xs:enumeration value="Yorkshire"/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> <xs:element name="folktask"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="member"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="member"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="user" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> <xs:element ref="festival" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="user"> <xs:complexType> <xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:integer"/> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="personal"/> <xs:element ref="account"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="personal"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="name"/> <xs:element ref="sex"/> <xs:element ref="address1"/> <xs:element ref="address2"/> <xs:element ref="city"/> <xs:element ref="county"/> <xs:element ref="postcode"/> <xs:element ref="telephone"/> <xs:element ref="mobile"/> <xs:element ref="email"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="name" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="sex" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="address1" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="address2" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="city" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="county" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="postcode" type="postcode"/> <xs:element name="telephone" type="telephone"/> <xs:element name="mobile" type="mobile"/> <xs:element name="email" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="account"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="username"/> <xs:element ref="password"/> <xs:element ref="userlevel"/> <xs:element ref="signupdate"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="username" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="password" type="password"/> <xs:element name="userlevel" type="userlevel"/> <xs:element name="signupdate" type="xs:dateTime"/> <xs:element name="festival"> <xs:complexType> <xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:integer" user="optional"/> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="event"/> <xs:element ref="contact"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="event"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="eventname"/> <xs:element ref="url"/> <xs:element ref="datefrom"/> <xs:element ref="dateto"/> <xs:element ref="location"/> <xs:element ref="eventpostcode"/> <xs:element ref="coords"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="eventname" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="url" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="datefrom" type="xs:date"/> <xs:element name="dateto" type="xs:date"/> <xs:element name="location" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="eventpostcode" type="postcode"/> <xs:element name="coords"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="lat"/> <xs:element ref="lng"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="lat" type="xs:decimal"/> <xs:element name="lng" type="xs:decimal"/> <xs:element name="contact"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="conname"/> <xs:element ref="conaddress1"/> <xs:element ref="conaddress2"/> <xs:element ref="concity"/> <xs:element ref="concounty"/> <xs:element ref="conpostcode"/> <xs:element ref="contelephone"/> <xs:element ref="conmobile"/> <xs:element ref="fax"/> <xs:element ref="conemail"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="conname" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="conaddress1" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="conaddress2" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="concity" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="concounty" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="conpostcode" type="postcode"/> <xs:element name="contelephone" type="telephone"/> <xs:element name="conmobile" type="mobile"/> <xs:element name="fax" type="telephone"/> <xs:element name="conemail" type="xs:string"/> </xs:schema>

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