Yes, my confusion was about the TOSSIM front end TinyViz as you have pointed.
With respect to the new TOSSIM, the approach sounds like ns2, is it correct? thank you for the clarification. ciao, --marco Quoting Philip Levis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Nov 23, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Marco Antonio Lopez Trinidad wrote: > > > > > Ciao Fatima, > > > > I think the problem is not the programming language you can use... > > to develop a > > GUI... > > > > The problem is the know how behind the exchange of data between > > your GUI > > application and the data produced by the simulator. > > > > Two ways: > > > > 1) TOSSIM was developed in Java, may be the easiest way is to > > follow that > > tendency, in order to produce scalable and useful software... > > > > 2) There are some communication ports that the TinyOS applications > > tools use to > > exchange data between PCs and sensor networks, may be the simulator > > also has > > that functionality... In this maner, you just have to connect your > > application > > (GUI) with that port... > > I think you're confusing TOSSIM in TinyOS 1.x with TOSSIM in 2.x. In > neither case is TOSSIM implemented in Java, but in 1.x there's the > Java-based TinyViz tool. In 2.x TOSSIM is a scriptable entity: the > goal was to do away with the communication ports, which are a huge > runtime overhead. Rather than have IPC and the resulting context > switches (1.x), a 2.x GUI can run in the same process as the simulator. > > Phil > _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://mail.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
