[kepler-dev] Datasource changes

[Dan Higgins]

Kevin,
    Nice job on changing the EML2DataSource to use initialize to wait 
for data to be loaded. Now, if I click on 'Run' before data is finished 
loading, the workflows will just wait (inside 'initialize') until data 
is ready, rather than throwing an error. (at least the ones I looked at 
did when run from within Vergil).

    However, I decided to test execution using the ptexecute macro. [You 
can use the ant target(s) 'ptexecute' or 'ptexecute-dev', or generate a 
batch file with 'build_ptexecute'.] ptexecute will run the workflow 
'workflows/eco/IPCC_Base_Layers.xml' OK if the data is in the cache; 
however, if the data is NOT in the cache (i.e. needs to be downloaded), 
I get a null pointer exception
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.ecoinformatics.seek.datasource.eml.eml2.Eml200DataSource.initiali
ze(Eml200DataSource.java:355)

    Another problem is that I cannot run multiple 'ptexecute' process 
simultaneously nor can I run kelper while a long ptexecute process is 
running. I suspect this is the same problem we saw before with multiple 
Kepler processes, but I am somewhat surprized that it occurs with 
ptexecute (This is with workflows that have datasources).

Dan

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