[kepler-dev] Custom actor deployment

[Mohana Ramaratnam]

Hi Siva,

I developed a custom actor (with its own icon and as part of a new 
collection under the Domain Specific Actors) and these are the steps 
that I took:

a) The java file for my actor, say CustomActor, was created within its 
own package in the $KEPLER/src folder
b) Created CustomActor folder within $KEPLER/src/actors and created 
CustomActor.xml and MANIFEST.MF with appropriate class names and LSID's.
c) Creating a custom icon see: 
http://plone.jcu.edu.au/dart/work-packages/dmq/dmq5/kepler/keplericons
d) To create a new collection within the Kepler Ontology: modify 
C:\Project\kepler\configs\ptolemy\configs\kepler\ontologies\keplerActorOntology.owl 
file. The entries that I added were:

<owl:Class rdf:about="urn:lsid:localhost:onto:1:1#NRGMRIActor">
    <rdfs:subClassOf>
      <owl:Class 
rdf:about="urn:lsid:localhost:onto:1:1#DomainSpecificActor"/>
    </rdfs:subClassOf>
    <rdfs:label rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string"
    >NRG Neuro</rdfs:label>
  </owl:Class>

(the above creates a collection under Domain Specific Actor within the 
Kepler Octology) and in the CustomActor.xml file I added:

<property name="semanticType00" 
value="urn:lsid:localhost:onto:1:1#NRGMRIActor"
      class="org.kepler.sms.SemanticType"/> 

the above line made sure that my custom actor was browsable under the 
NRG Neuro grouping.

Hope that helps

Mohana

Sivagowri Swaminathan wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I am having similar problems trying to deploy a custom actor in kepler alpha 
>9.0 version.
>
>I created a folder under kepler-1.0.0alpha9/src/actor and  copied the custom 
>actor's manifest and the xml files into it. say it was 
>kepler-1.0.0alpha9/src/actor/fileChooserActor -----> name of my actor.
>
>Under kepler/src, I copied the source java files. say it was 
>kepler-1.0.0alpha9/src/fpkg -----> The package containing my actor's source 
>code. My actor is extended from Typedatomic actor as is given in the 
>helloworld example.
>
>I copied the kar files into kepler-1.0.0alpha9/kar folder. I got the same 
>error as what Mohana got, say,
>The class name you entered was not found in the classpath. Note that the 
>class you are trying to enter must be in the classpath from which you 
>launched this program:fpkg.FileChooserActor.
>I edited the kepler.bat file to add fpkg in the classpath but still I got 
>the same error.
>
>Instead of directly pasting the kar files in the folder, i tried to first 
>run kepler alpha 9.0 and then as matt and chad suggested, I tried to 'import 
>the kar file'.
>I got 'error creating the component enty from actor metadata: null'
>
>Can somebody tell me how to deploy a custom actor in an existing kepler 
>installation. This is very crucial for me as I have to deploy the actors in 
>my project manager's machine which also has kepler alpha 9.0.
>
>Thanx
>Siva
>
>
>
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>>From: Mohana Ramaratnam <mramarat at wustl.edu>
>>To: kepler-dev at ecoinformatics.org
>>Subject: [kepler-dev] Adding Case to Kepler
>>Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 14:45:26 -0500
>>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am trying to add the Case actor (ptolemy.actor.lib.hoc.Case) into the 
>>Kepler Ontology. I have taken the following steps:
>>
>>a) Created $kepler/src/Case folder with Case.xml and MANIFEST.MF
>>b) Performed
>>   ant full-clean,
>>   ant ptolemy
>>   deleted ~/.kepler folder
>>   ant buildkarlib
>>   ant run-dev
>>
>>The last step gave me an error:
>>
>>The class name you entered was not found in the classpath.  Note that the 
>>class you are trying to enter must be in the classpath from which you 
>>launched this program: ptolemy.actor.lib.hoc.Case
>>    [java] java.lang.NullPointerException: Could not clone actor 'Case' 
>>    
>>
>>from the 'ptolemy.actor.lib.hoc.Case' class, the actor null, meaning it was 
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>
>>not found? Perhaps there is a classpath problem of the karlib needs to be 
>>flushed?
>>
>>ptolemy.jar contains the ptoley.lib.hoc.* classes and is in my classpath 
>>within the eclipse environment.
>>
>>What am I doing wrong/missing?
>>
>>~Mohana
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>>Manifest-Version: 1.4.2
>>KAR-Version: 1.0
>>lsid: urn:lsid:kepler-project.org:kar:479:1
>>
>>Name: Case.xml
>>lsid: urn:lsid:kepler-project.org:actor:479:1
>>type: actorMetadata
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>><< Case.xml >>
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