Your English speaking guide will meet you at the pre-arranged pick-up point. He will drive you in our air-conditioned minibus to Emma. At the end of your cruise, he will drive you to a pre-arranged transfer point for your onward journey.

Yes. Starting with build 2.0.4217, you can set the verbosity.level property to silent. This will suppress all but severe error messages.

EMMA's primary objective is to establish and manage a unified repository for maintaining medically relevant mouse mutants and making them available to the scientific community. In essence, EMMA's main function is to archive mutant strains of mice and distribute them to researchers on request. However, EMMA also hosts courses in cryopreservation in order to promote the use and dissemination of frozen embryos and spermatozoa.

Very well. She has been traveling by Airstream since she was three years old, and to her this is just a normal part of life. She meets kids and adults everywhere she goes and just a few minutes after meeting a new folks she is starting games with them. She talks to her grandmother and grandfather via phone every few days, too.

Quite. Emma renders a complex surface of 30,000 triangles, where every vertex is being dynamically recomputed every frame using an interpreted lua script, at 60 frames per second on a 3GHz CPU high-end machine. Performance does vary across different machines, but this example is an interesting indicator of Emma's speed potential.

First of all, a class needs to be considered executable to even be considered for coverage. An executable class is considered to have been covered if it has been loaded and initialized by the JVM. Class initialization implies that the class static constructor (if any) is executed. Note that a class can be covered even though none of its other methods has been executed. It is common to see a small number of loaded but uninitialized classes when you use emmarun without the -f option.

EMMA considers a method covered when it has been entered (its very first basic block has been covered). Tracking whether the method has completed execution instead would be problematic: a given method can have any number of normal or abnormal exit points and it is not clear which of the many exit paths should be considered the "official" one. Looking out for uncovered methods is a good technique for detecting either dead code or code than needs more test attention.

Since EMMA bases some coverage types on basic blocks, it gives you a choice to treat all blocks as "equal" (every block contributes the same weight) or not (every block contributes a weight proportional to its size, i.e. the number of bytecode instructions it contains). This decision is made entirely at report generation time, via the report units setting. The default is weighted mode.

I am certain that all of my classes are built with -g(debug='true') and yet EMMA still complains about missing debug info!

Instrumentation approach. EMMA belongs to a class of pure Java (i.e. not JVMPI- or JVMDI-based) coverage tools based on Java bytecode instrumentation. This means you don't need special JVM switches for enabling coverage: rather, you run EMMA-processed .class files more or less as you normally would (after adding EMMA as a runtime dependency). It also means EMMA does not instrument your .java sources (as is done by Clover, for example).

Independently of any user-provided instrumentation filters, EMMA always excludes the following from coverage: Additionally, the following types of methods are excluded by default, but can be included by setting the appropriate instrumentation property: methods marked as Synthetic by the compiler: these are usually "helper" methods needed by the compiler to implement certain Java language constructs like inner class access, etc. These methods have no user-provided code.

First of all, there is little chance that you will be able to use the on-the-fly mode (emmarun) with a full-blown J2EE container. The reason lies in the fact that many J2EE features require specialized classloading that will happen outside of EMMA instrumenting classloader. The server might run fine, but you will likely get no coverage data. Thus, the correct procedure is to instrument your classes prior to deployment (offline mode).

The benefits for your pet include gentle, loving and professional pet care. By allowing your pet to stay home, your pet can continue its normal routine and have a companion that will play, exercise and comfort them in your absence. This reduces the stress on your pet and makes them much happier than being boarded in a strange place.

On the EMMA home page (www.emmanet.org) you can find a submission form, which you should complete and send to EMMA via the website. On the submission form you will be asked to give contact information, the type and description of your mutation, the phenotype and genetic background of your mouse, the sanitary status, literature information (PubMedIDs), information on scientific interest and intellectual property rights and some additional information needed for handling the mice.

Anybody who wants their mutant mouse strains cryopreserved may deposit strains with EMMA. However depositors must be aware that these strains become freely available to other researchers after being deposited.

If embryos are to be frozen down EMMA requires the depositor to send several breeding animals, ideally 10 females and 6 males. The more breeding pairs the depositor can send the quicker the stock will be cryopreserved. For sperm freezing 6 males are sufficient. Depositors also have to provide a health status report for the mice they want to send. This report must be less than 3 months old.

On the EMMA website (www.emmanet.org) you can find a list of available strains with further information on the mouse you are interested in. When clicking on the 'order' link for the appropriate strain you will be guided to a request form which you can quickly fill in and send to EMMA through the website. The request form will ask you for contact information and whether you wish to receive frozen sperm or embryos or live animals.

For the shipment of live mice or frozen samples EMMA will charge €200 per strain. In addition, you have to cover the actual costs for shipping the material from the EMMA facilty.