[kepler-dev] Custom actor deployment

Chad Berkley berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu
Mon May 8 08:45:12 PDT 2006


I think you mean kepler version alpha 9.  It'll probably be about 20 
years until we get to version 9 :)  You should just be able to put your 
built kar files into the kepler/kar/actors directory then restart kepler 
and the actors should show up.  If they don't show up for some reason, 
try removing your ~/.kepler directory and restarting kepler.

chad

Sivagowri Swaminathan wrote:
> 
> Hi Chad
> 
> Thanx for your reply. I have already created all the required files, say 
> manifest.mf, the actor.moml and even the kar file by using buildkarlib. 
> What I want to do now is how do I take these files and install them in 
> kepler9.0 stand-alone version [obtained by installing kepler9.0.exe 
> which is in another machine]?
> Currently I have all these files in my kepler development environment 
> i.e. containing all of kepler source files. But if another machine has 
> kepler.exe installed, then how do I deploy these custom actor files into 
> the installed version of kepler?
> 
> Hope my question is clear.
> 
> Thanx
> Siva
> 
>> From: Chad Berkley <berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu>
>> To: Sivagowri Swaminathan <sivagowri at hotmail.com>
>> CC: kepler-dev at ecoinformatics.org
>> Subject: Re: [kepler-dev] Custom actor deployment
>> Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 08:26:51 -0700
>>
>> Hi Siva,
>>
>> Take a look in src/actors for an example of how to do this. 
>> Essentially, each actor gets a directory with a moml file and a 
>> manifest within it.  The manifest assigns ids and the moml file 
>> decribes your actor.  When you run 'ant buildkarlib' ant goes through 
>> each of those directories and jars (kars) up each actor.  The system 
>> then reads the kar files that are put in kepler/kar/**.  To get your 
>> actor to show up in the proper place in the tree, you will need to 
>> alter the 'semanticType' property in the moml file.  If you are 
>> creating new actors, you will need a new lsid for each actor (which go 
>> in the entityId property).  There is a readme with the last id number 
>> available.  If you plan to check these actors into cvs, please update 
>> the readme.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any problems.
>>
>> thanks,
>> chad
>>
>> Sivagowri Swaminathan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have created about a couple of custom actors tailored to suit my 
>>> application using the kepler devpt environment. I need to deploy the 
>>> actors on a stand-alone kepler application version 9 preferably.
>>> To be more clear, I have created say two custom actors X and Y. I 
>>> have kepler version 9.0 in another machine. How do i deploy these two 
>>> custom actors in that kepler build?
>>>
>>> What are the steps that are to be followed for deployment?
>>> also, is there a way to search in the kepler-dev archive for 
>>> retrieving old responses?
>>>
>>> can somebody let me know about this , I need to deploy the actors in 
>>> my PM's machine.
>>>
>>> Thanx
>>> Siva
>>>
>>> p.s. christopher, I couldnt reply to your last email as I had my finals.
>>>
>>>
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