All you have to do is create a data source using the data source default implementation defined by IltDefaultDataSource and pass the XML file to be read to its parse method, as follows:

For detailed information about data sources, see section Data sources.

The following is an example of an alarm defined in XML format. For details about the XML elements used in this example, see table Elements in an XML data file .

In this example, the first alarm object ( alarm 1 ) is an acknowledged raw alarm with a perceived severity level of Warning, and affecting the managed object Router1. The second alarm object ( alarm 2 ) is a unacknowledged impact alarm with a perceived severity level of MajorHigh, and affecting the managed object Gateway1.

The following figure shows the two alarms displayed in a table component:

The attribute managedObjectInstance may be of any Java™ class. To benefit from the automatic consolidation of alarm states from individual alarms, use the same value as the object identifier of the corresponding managed object. See Setting the alarm counters.

To set a value in XML, specify the Java class of the value. For well-known classes, use:

<attribute name="comments" javaClass="java.lang.String">comment</attribute>.

For other specific classes, the XML format will be the same but the classes must conform to the JViews TGO type converter constraints.

For details about the well-known classes and the type converter, refer to Type converter in the Context and Deployment Descriptordocumentation.