-/** \defgroup MSG_JAVA jMSG
- \ingroup MSG_API
- \brief Java bindings to MSG (\ref MSG_API)
-
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-
- MSG was the first distributed programming environment provided within
- SimGrid. While almost realistic, it remains quite simple (simplistic?).
- This describes the Java bindings to this interface.
-
- \section jMSG_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 Java programming language, your are in the right
- section. To use the C interface, please refer to \ref MSG_C.
-*/
+/** \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.
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 C programming language, your are in the right
- section. To use the Java programming interface, please refer to
- \ref MSG_JAVA.
-*/
-
-
-/**
-
-\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. To use the Java or Ruby programming interfaces, please refer to
+ the documentation provided in the relevant packages.
\section MSG_funct Offered functionnalities
- \ref m_process_management
- \ref m_datatypes_management
- \ref m_host_management
- \ref m_task_management
+ - \ref m_file_management
+ - \ref msg_actions_functions
- \ref msg_gos_functions
- - \ref m_channel_management
- \ref msg_easier_life
- \ref msg_simulation
- \section MSG_examples Examples of MSG
+ Also make sure to visit the page @ref MSG_examples.
+*/
+
+
+/** @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 m_file_management Managing functions of Files
+ * @ingroup MSG_API
+ * @brief This section describes the file structure of MSG
+ * (#m_file_t) and the functions for managing it. It
+ * is based on POSIX functions.
+ */
+
+/** @defgroup msg_actions_functions Managing actions
+ * @ingroup MSG_API
+ * @brief This section describes functions for managing actions.
+ */
+
+/** @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.
+ */
- - \ref MSG_ex_master_slave
- - \ref MSG_ex_asynchronous_communications
- - \ref MSG_ex_master_slave_scrip_lua
+/** @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
*/
-/** @addtogroup MSG_LUA
+/**
+@defgroup MSG_examples MSG Examples
+@ingroup MSG_API
+
+MSG comes with an extensive set of examples. It is sometimes difficult
+to find the one you need. This list aims at helping you finding the
+example from which you can learn what you want to.
+
+@section MSG_ex_basics Basic examples and features
+
+*/
+
+/**
+@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 host_management
- - \ref tasks_management
- - \ref 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 lua version of 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
+/** \defgroup MSG_ex_asynchronous_communications Asynchronous communications
+ \ingroup MSG_examples
Simulation of asynchronous communications between a sender and a receiver using a realistic platform and
an external description of the deployment.
*/
-/** \page MSG_ex_master_slave_scrip_lua Master/slave application using lua console
-
- Simulation of a master-slave application using a realistic platform and
- an external description of the deployment via a lua script.
-
- \section MSG_ex_msl_TOC Table of contents:
-
- - \ref MSG_ext_msl_code
- - \ref MSG_ext_msl_preliminary
- - \ref MSG_ext_msl_master
- - \ref MSG_ext_msl_slave
- - \ref MSG_ext_msl_core
- - \ref MSG_ext_msl_main
- - \ref MSG_ext_msl_helping
- - \ref MSG_ext_msl_platform
-
-<hr>
-
- \dontinclude msg/masterslave/masterslave_console.c
-
- \section MSG_ext_msl_code Code of the application
-
- \subsection MSG_ext_msl_preliminary Preliminary declarations
-
- \skip include
- \until } channel_t;
-
- \subsection MSG_ext_msl_master Master code
-
- This function has to be assigned to a m_process_t that will behave as the master.
- It should not be called directly but either given as a parameter to
- #MSG_process_create() or registered as a public function through
- #MSG_function_register() and then automatically assigned to a process through
- #MSG_load_platform_script().
-
- C style arguments (argc/argv) are interpreted as:
- - the number of tasks to distribute
- - the computation size of each task
- - the size of the files associated to each task
- - number of hosts that will accept those tasks.
-
- Tasks are dumbly sent in a round-robin style.
-
- \until end_of_master
-\subsection MSG_ext_msl_slave Slave code
-
- This function has to be assigned to a #m_process_t that has to behave as a slave.
- Just like the master fuction (described in \ref MSG_ext_ms_master), it should not be called directly.
-
- This function keeps waiting for tasks and executes them as it receives them.
-
- \until end_of_slave
-
-\subsection MSG_ext_msl_core Simulation core
-
- This function is the core of the simulation and is divided now only into 2 parts
- thanks to MSG_load_platform_script().
- -# Simulation settings and application deployment : MSG_load_platform_script() loads and creates a realistic
- environment and the agents on the right locations, described in the lua script file (see example below).
- Note that the use of this function require a lua installation on your machine.
- -# The simulation is run with #MSG_main().
-
- Its arguments are:
- - <i>platform_script_file</i>: the name of the script file containing a valid platform and application description, using bound lua methods to bypass the surfxml parser.
-
- \until end_of_test_all
-
-\subsection MSG_ext_msl_main Main() function
-
- This initializes MSG, runs a simulation, and free all data-structures created by MSG.
-
- \until end_of_main
-
- \section MSG_ext_msl_helping Helping files
-
- \subsection MSG_ext_msl_platform Example of platform script file
-
- \include msg/masterslave/platform_script.lua
-
-
-*/
-
-/** \page MSG_ex_master_slave Master/slave application
+/** @defgroup MSG_ex_master_slave Basic Master/Slaves
+ @ingroup MSG_examples
Simulation of a master-slave application using a realistic platform and
an external description of the deployment.
\until simgrid.clean()
*/
+
