Most real world cards have a physical interface to connect them to
other sets of equipment or to a network. The connections are
usually achieved through connectors or ports. Rogue Wave®
JViews TGO provides port
objects to represent connections between a card (
IltCard) and the external world.
Ports allow you to represent alarms and
states graphically in the same way as network elements do, with
alarm balloons and colors depending on the alarm severity.
Depending on the nature of the application, ports can be
represented by a bitmap image or by a vector graphic. Like a
network element, the port representation is set through the
TypeAttribute
attribute assigned to the object represented by the port.