Properties Table

Properties are fundamental to SCOOP and its portrayal of a distributed component, and SCOOP provides a basic building block to manage any collection of properties a custom component publishes as its API.

The standard Properties Table implementation allows you to incorporate any of the built-in component properties defined by SCOOP, or to define and support any of your own custom ones. You can define class default property values as well as instance specific defaults. You can preconfigure initial property values for any Properties Table by means of an XML configuration file. All property change notifications to listeners across the network, as well as component registration with the network-wide SCOOP Registry are automatically handled for you by the standard implementation.

Data Visualizations

Every SCOOP component property has an associated value, and ultimately, every property value is likely to be the target of user scrutiny. Providing compelling data visualizations for an open set of value types is typically an enormous challenge. SCOOP builds upon the simplicity and consistency of its properties architecture to provide a set of built-in, type-appropriate data visualizations that are automatically drawn upon to provide graphical representations of any component property dataset. And for properties that are configured to be writeable, the visualizations are interactive, allowing users with adequate authority to make property value changes.

These visualizations are used by the standard SCOOP desktop and mobile application Viewers, but you are free to use them in your own custom GUIs if you like. More.

Built-In Components

The SCOOP Component Library gives you a head start with a variety of uniquely powerful, built-in components that you can leverage to get your applications up and running quickly and easily.

Alarms  You can use an alarm to take a variety of actions if any particular component property value goes out of an acceptable, user specifiable range. More.

VMware Components  Take advantage of interactive access into VCenter and unique visibility into previosly hidden services of the VMware kernel. Find out more.

Other Built-In Components  The list of built-in components is ever growing, with contributions from members of the SCOOP developer network. More.