Overview

A Raindrop application can be configured via a configuration file. This page describes the configuration file.

The file is in an XML format. The schema has not yet been finalised.

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Element Descriptions

raindrop

This is the top level element.

Child elements: Stages.

Stages

The Stages element contains the individual Stages that comprise the Raindrop application.

Child elements: Stage.

Stage

The Stage element contains an individual Stage. The following attributes are required:

• eventhandler - the fully qualified classname of the Event Handler that the Stage will use. This class must have an empty constructor.
• name - the name of the stage. This is used to retrieve a handle to the Stage via the StageManager and should be unique.

Child elements: AdminController, Param.

AdminController

The AdminController element describes a QueueAdmissionController. The following attributes are required:

• class - the fully qualified classname of the QueueAdmissionController that will be added to the QueueAdmissionControllers surrounding the TaskQueue. This class must have an empty constructor.

Child elements: Param.

Param

The Param element describes a name/value parameter pairing. The following attributes are required:

• name - the name of the parameter.
• value - the value of the parameter.

Child elements: -

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