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Writing Samples from Modulant Solutions
The following samples, which I designed and wrote from scratch, show
how I approach technical topics and present information to software
developers. Some are entire works; others are excerpts from longer documents.
Some are from manuals released publicly; others never saw the light
of day before development was halted. All samples, including pre-release
documents, posted with permission.
The following PDF documents can be viewed on any system that supports
Adobe Acrobat Reader.
From Version 1.0 (Modulant Curtana Interoperability Platform):
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Creating a Sample Context Map
- This chapter contains a tutorial for creating context maps using
the original version of the Modulant mapping tool. For the first
version this tool was called Modulant Balisarda, and was later renamed
Modulant Contextia Context Mapper.
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Using the Data Converter -
This chapter describes the original version of the Data Converter,
a component of the run-time Interoperability Server. In this version,
GUI support was negligible, and most specifications were made by
hand in the XML file that contained the context map.
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Mapping Tool Quick Reference
- This reference card describes the basic operations of the Balisarda
mapping tool on a two-sided page, to be folded in thirds. It encapsulates
the bulk of the tasks described in each of the preceding two sample
chapters. The design of the next release changed so dramatically
that the information on this card became not only obsolete but unnecessary.
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Developer's Guide - This guide
describes a simple Java API for configuring and queuing interoperability
runs to perform semantic mediation and data transformation.
From Version 2.0 beta:
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Creating Data Descriptor
Files - This chapter describes the process for creating a description
of a physical source of application data. Originally called data
descriptors, and later called data maps, these descriptions
are in XML. This chapter describes the process for creating a descriptor
file by hand, before the Data Mapper tool provided a GUI interface
for performing the same tasks.
From Version 2.1 (Modulant Contextia Interoperability Platform):
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System Overview - This guide
provides conceptual information about semantic interoperability
and the high-level process for enabling disparate applications to
share information using their own native formats and context. This
guide describes Modulant Contextia version 2.1, which was significantly
improved from earlier versions.
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Resolving Structural Conflicts
- This chapter was intended to be part of a downloadable tutorial
where potential customers could complete a very small project to
get a flavor of the power of Modulant Contextia. This tutorial uses
version 2.1, which is much easier to use (and to explain) than the
original version.
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Using SOAP Messages - This chapter
from version 2.1 of the Developer's Guide describes how to use SOAP
messages to connect as a Web service to the Modulant Contextia Interoperability
Server to perform interoperability runs to transform data.
Intended for Version 3.0:
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Documentation Plan - This plan
contains my vision for changes to the document set for release 3.0,
which never came into being. The product design represented a major
step toward increased usability, which I intended to reflect in
the updated manuals and help system.
These sections were published in both PDF and HTML format, generated
from FrameMaker source using Adobe Acrobat and WebWorks Publisher Professional,
respectively.
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