In This Chapter

This chapter provides an overview of the requirements necessary to create your CMM as a runtime derivative. It briefly discusses the classes from which you can derive to create your CMM, namely

• KcsIO

• KcsProfile

• KcsProfileFormat

• KcsXform

In addition, the chapter discusses the extendable class, KcsStatus class.

The chapter starts by identifying the requirements for creating a CMM. Then, it suggests reasons you might derive from (or extend) each of the aforementioned classes to customize your CMM. The chapter approaches runtime derivation prerequisites from the perspective of program coding as well as configuration requirements. The chapter concludes with a discussion of profile requirements, since the primary reason for writing a custom CMM is to create profiles that it can manipulate.

Subsequent chapters detail how to create class derivatives.