[e-lang] E updated with new Causeway

[Terry Stanley]

Hi Thomas,

The pages at <http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/Causeway> and
<http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/Causeway_Platform_Developer> are still
rough and incomplete, but should help get you started. Please let me
know of any questions you have.

  --Terry


On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Terry Stanley <cocoonfx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
>
> This weekend I expect to update the erights wiki with experience to
> date instrumenting platforms to generate Causeway's trace logs.
> Recently Tyler Close & Tom Van Cutsem and I discussed their
> experiences with Waterken & AmbientTalk (respectively). The wiki will
> be a good place for you to start to get an idea of what's involved. It
> will include examples of the set of events that describe promise
> behavior (Waterken & AmbientTalk generate different events),
> difficulties of capturing stack traces, performance considerations,
> and so on.
>
> Initially, Causeway worked only with E-on-Java and we had an ad-hoc
> trace log format. Subsequently, Tyler defined the current
> language-neutral json format. We expected to have E generate the new
> format but had to back out of that effort. We just didn't have the
> time.
>
> My intent is for the wiki experience report to simplify the effort of
> generating Causeway trace logs and to prevent someone from being
> blind-sided by some problem. So, perhaps, you'll be my first test
> case. Feedback would be very much appreciated.
>
> -- Terry
>