+/** \addtogroup MSG_API
-/** \defgroup MSG_C MSG native
- \ingroup MSG_API
- \brief Native interface to MSG (\ref MSG_API)
-
- \htmlonly <!-- DOXYGEN_NAVBAR_LABEL="Native interface" --> \endhtmlonly
-
MSG was the first distributed programming environment provided within
SimGrid. While almost realistic, it remains quite simple (simplistic?).
This describes the native to MSG.
use the C programming language, your are in the right
section. To use the Java or Ruby programming interfaces, please refer to
the documentation provided in the relevant packages.
-*/
-
-
-/**
-
-\defgroup MSG_LUA lMSG
- \ingroup MSG_API
- \brief Lua bindings to MSG (\ref MSG_API)
-
- \htmlonly <!--
- DOXYGEN_NAVBAR_LABEL="LUA bindings"
- --> \endhtmlonly
-
- MSG was the first distributed programming environment provided within
- SimGrid. While almost realistic, it remains quite simple (simplistic?).
- This describes the Lua bindings to this interface.
-
- \section lMSG_who Who should use this (and who shouldn't)
-
- You should use MSG if you want to study some heuristics for a
- given problem you don't really want to implement. If you want to
- use the Lua script language, your are in the right
- section. To use the C interface, please refer to \ref MSG_C.
-
-*/
-
-/** @addtogroup MSG_C
\section MSG_funct Offered functionnalities
- \ref m_process_management
- \ref m_host_management
- \ref m_task_management
- \ref msg_gos_functions
- - \ref m_channel_management
- \ref msg_easier_life
- \ref msg_simulation
- \ref MSG_ex_master_slave_scrip_lua
*/
-/** @addtogroup MSG_LUA
+
+/** @defgroup m_datatypes_management MSG Data Types
+ @ingroup MSG_API
+ @brief This section describes the different datatypes provided by MSG.
+
+ \htmlonly <!-- DOXYGEN_NAVBAR_LABEL="Data types" --> \endhtmlonly
+*/
+
+/** @defgroup m_process_management Management Functions of Agents
+ * @ingroup MSG_API
+ * @brief This section describes the agent structure of MSG
+ * (#m_process_t) and the functions for managing it.
+ */
+
+/** @defgroup m_host_management Management functions of Hosts
+ * @ingroup MSG_API
+ * @brief This section describes the host structure of MSG
+ */
+
+/** @defgroup m_task_management Managing functions of Tasks
+ * @ingroup MSG_API
+ * @brief This section describes the task structure of MSG
+ * (#m_task_t) and the functions for managing it.
+ */
+
+/** @defgroup msg_gos_functions MSG Operating System Functions
+ * @ingroup MSG_API
+ * @brief This section describes the functions that can be used
+ * by an agent for handling some task.
+ */
+
+/** @defgroup msg_easier_life Platform and Application management
+ * @ingroup MSG_API
+ * @brief This section describes functions to manage the platform creation
+ * and the application deployment. Please check @ref
+ * MSG_examples for an overview of their usage.
+ */
+
+/**
+@defgroup msg_simulation MSG simulation Functions
+@ingroup MSG_API
+@brief This section describes the functions you need to know to
+ set up a simulation. You should have a look at \ref MSG_examples
+ to have an overview of their usage.
+
+@htmlonly <!-- DOXYGEN_NAVBAR_LABEL="Simulation functions" --> @endhtmlonly
+*/
+
+/**
+@defgroup MSG_LUA Lua bindings
+@ingroup MSG_API
+@brief Lua bindings to MSG (\ref MSG_API)
+
+@htmlonly <!-- DOXYGEN_NAVBAR_LABEL="LUA bindings" --> @endhtmlonly
+
+ This is the lua bindings of the \ref MSG_API interface.
+
+ \section lMSG_who Who should use this (and who shouldn't)
+
+ If you want to use MSG to study your algorithm, but you don't
+ want to use the C language (using \ref MSG_API), then you should
+ use some bindings such as this one. The advantage of the lua
+ bindings is that they are distributed directly with the main
+ archive (in contrary to Java and Ruby bindings, for example,
+ that are distributed separately). Another advantage of lua is
+ that there is almost no performance loss with regard to the C
+ version (at least there shouln't be any -- it is still to be
+ precisely assessed).
\section MSG_Lua_funct Lua offered functionnalities in MSG
- - \ref lua_host_management
- - \ref lua_tasks_management
- - \ref lua_environment_management
+ Almost all important features of the MSG interface are available
+ from the lua bindings. Unfortunately, since doxygen does not support
+ the lua modules implemented directly in C as we are using, there is
+ no ready to use reference documentation for this module. Even more
+ than for the other modules, you will have to dig into the source
+ code of the examples to learn how to use it.
+
\section Lua_examples Examples of lua MSG
- \ref MSG_ex_master_slave_lua
- \ref MSG_ex_master_slave_lua_bypass
+ - Also, the Chord example (in the source tree) is a working
+ non-trivial example of use of the lua bindings
*/
-/** @defgroup m_datatypes_management MSG Data Types
- @ingroup MSG_C
- @brief This section describes the different datatypes provided by MSG.
-
- \htmlonly <!-- DOXYGEN_NAVBAR_LABEL="Data types" --> \endhtmlonly
-*/
-/** \addtogroup m_process_management
- \ingroup MSG_C */
-/** \addtogroup m_host_management
- \ingroup MSG_C */
-/** \addtogroup m_task_management
- \ingroup MSG_C */
-/** \addtogroup msg_gos_functions
- \ingroup MSG_C */
-/** \addtogroup m_channel_management
- \ingroup MSG_C */
-/** \addtogroup msg_easier_life
- \ingroup MSG_C */
-/** \addtogroup msg_simulation
- \ingroup MSG_C */
-
-
/** \page MSG_ex_asynchronous_communications Asynchronous communication applications
Simulation of asynchronous communications between a sender and a receiver using a realistic platform and
\until simgrid.clean()
*/
+
