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We define MetaLooper as a "component-based batch experiment framework" as it significantly faciliates the configuration of batch experiments and supports code reuse. It allows you to configure your pieces of Java-code in a component-oriented fashion into trees executed by the MetaLooper. It allows for configuration of experiments and their parameters using XML, preventing the waste of time for doing that stuff in Java, but also requires that you modularize your experiment code well.
Also included is a component that allows you to work with tables from within MetaLooper. It currently supports CSV files where you can insert rows, extract columns (to Java arrays) and iterate through all rows. The TODO list for this part includes the support of JDBC.
MetaLooper is still in a stage where significant changes might happen, which also could make one version incompatible to another. Some features have to be added, others have to be reviewed and enhanced. This will happen as far as other deadlines allow since MetaLooper initially wasn't planned to be a stand-alone project. Hence, MetaLooper is alpha software, but as far as it is implemented, there are no known bugs or errors.