Handling trace and error messages

A message is a string of information that the ODA can send to an external ODA log, where it can be reviewed by the system administrator or the developer to provide information about the run-time state of the ODA. There are two different categories of messages that an ODA can send to the ODA log:

Messages can be generated within the ODA code or obtained from a message file. The ODK API provides the trace() method, defined in the ODKUtility class, to log trace and error messages. This section provides the following information:

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