[kepler-dev] tutorials for developing Directors in Kepler

[Christopher Brooks]

Hi Irfan,
Your use case sounds like Synchronous Dataflow (SDF), where you
have an actor that reads a model, filters the model using XSLT 
or someother mechanism and then writes the model to the grid.

To read the model, one can use ptolemy.actor.lib.io.FileReader.
To process the model, one can use
ptolemy.actor.lib.xslt.XSLTransformer
or write a custom actor
I'm not that up on how models are submitted to a grid, that is
more of a Kepler area.

Edward Lee gave a tutorial on how to extend domains and the user
interface,
see: 
http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/194.html

_Christopher
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    Hi Irfan,
    
    Adding a director is pretty straight-forward.  You just need to extend 
    ptolemy.actor.Director then make a Director stub and put it in 
    src/Directors.  You can use one of the existing stubs as a model.  You 
    may want to extend one of the existing directors that runs the execution 
    model you want, because developing your own execution model can be a bit 
    tricky, especially if you want to use multiple threads.
    
    I don't know of any tutorials on this, but the PTII folks may have one. 
      You might look here: http://ptolemy.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/
    
    chad
    
    
    Irfan Habib wrote:
    > Hi,
    > 
    > I'm interested in exploring development of a director for Kepler. 
    > Basically as part of our project we require a director which takes a 
    > Kepler authored workflow and translates it into another format and 
    > submits it to a Grid service.
    > 
    > Are their any tutorials for director development, or any relevant 
    > sources I should peruse?
    > 
    > Best Regards,
    > Irfan
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