What are contexts?

It is a central concept of CCIL that each data manipulation activity is realized within a context. As a matter of fact, it is one of the main features of the information as a phenomena - a unit of information might mean different things depending of the context it is being handled in. The context in its turn is formed by other units of information. The same rule applies for them.

In the context of the software system, a context (short from application context) is the setup in means of artifacts, configuration and input files for a specific use-case.

It consists of a folder within context/apps which contains the main configuration file - context.properties. This file defines all the stages and pipelines within the CCIL application.

context.properties

Uses the Java properties format to store data.

Context-specific properties

# CCIL app context for ECONOMEDIA
#-------------------------------------

context.title = Docsim service context
context.description = CCIL customization for Economedia.
context.author = Deyan Peychev
context.comment = You can clone this view to generate custom views.
context.thumbnail = media/logo.png

title

Title for the context.

description

Human description.

author

The author of the context.

comment

Arbitrary user comment.

thumbnail

Thumbnail image.

Definition of pipelines

TBA

Definition of stages

TBA

Definition of constants

TBA

Custom expressions

TBA