OASIS4 description and configuration XML files

This chapter details the content of the XML description and configuration files used with OASIS4.

• The XML description files are used to:
  • describe each application: the ``Application Description'' (AD)

  • describe the relations a component model of an application is able to establish with the external environment through inputs and outputs: the ``Potential Model Input and Output Description'' (PMIOD)

  The description XML files, i.e. the ADs and PMIODs, should be created by the component model developer, either by hand or with the graphical user interface wizard.tcl available in
  oasis4/util/gui, to provide information about the general characteristics and the potential coupling interface of its code, but they are not used by the OASIS4 coupler.

  
  
  

• The XML configuration files are used to:
  • configure the general characteristics of a coupled model run: the ``Specific Coupling Configuration'' (SCC)

  • configure the relations the component model will establish with the external environment through inputs and outputs for a specific run: the Specific Model Input and Output Configuration (SMIOC).

  The configuration XML files, i.e. the SCC and the SMIOCs, must be created by the coupled model user, i.e. the person that builds the coupled model, either by hand or with the graphical user interface oasis-gui.tcl available in oasis4/util/gui. They provide specifications about the process management and the coupling and I/O exchanges of one particular coupled model and are used by the OASIS4 coupler.