HLPM - a high level protocol monitoring tool for education

Abstract

A high level protocol monitoring tool (HLPM) for education is presented. This tool provides an easy interface for learners who have little technical background to understand the design and implementation of Internet application protocols. Using this tool, learners can monitor, test and write interaction scenarios of an application level protocol. The tool incorporates the FESI Script (an interpreter language by Jean-Marc Luring) with which learners can design, implement, and test new network services. HLPM runs on any operating systems that run Java Virtual Machine. The learners can understand the mechanism of a high level protocol by monitoring, and testing the protocol messages. They can learn how to make the network services by describing a new protocol. In a word, HLPM offers learners an active study environment of high level protocol by operating an actual network. HLPM features WebDAV and SOAP learning functions.