[kepler-users] Kepler, adding composite actors?

[Ralph Seguin]

Ok.
Sorry for the spammish and huge email (attachments).

I've made certain that the .jar is in the CLASSPATH
(modified the lax.class.path var in the kepler_alpha6.lax
file) and it is definitely coming up.
The actors that I'm trying to add are all composite actors
from our COSEC/SolarSoft package.  I had no trouble doing
it in Ptolemy II.
The tutorial covers adding an atomic actors, but this did
not work for these composite actors.  I _HIGHLY_ recommend
coming up with a better import/add/unique id system... :-)
I've attached the annotations.owl and ontology.owl as I
think they should be given our service description file
(also attached).
I can also send the .jar if you are interested.  I'm also
trying to get several other packages added.

BTW- I also found out that the intro.htm and
welcomeMessage.xml files are used from the .jar file, and
not the files that are in the dir tree.

Thanks.
-Ralph
seguin at lmsal.com



>    As you discovered, the procedure for adding actors to 
>Kepler is 
> quite a bit different than for Ptolemy. (And, currently, 
>not easy and 
> obvious.)  annotations.owl and ontology.owl are the key 
>files for adding 
> to the actor list, but I suspect that your main problem 
>is getting 
> Kepler to see the jar file you refer to. All jar files 
>need to added to 
> the classpath. If you are running kepler from ant (using 
>'ant run-dev') 
> then placing your jar inside the $Kepler/lib/jar 
>directory should make 
> it visible. Then just opening the appropriate workflow 
>(*.xml file) 
> should work even if your actor is not present on 
>Kepler's actor list. If 
> you use the .bat or .sh files, then your jar file must 
>be explicitly 
> added to the classpaths in these files (I don't know 
>what OS or version 
> your are using.) If you are using the 1.6alpha 
>installers from the 
> Kepler web page, adding to the classpath is tricky and I 
>suggest using 
> the .bat or .sh files.
> 
>    To add your actor to Keplers list, you can just right 
>click on the 
> appropriate caregory in the actor tree and add it by 
>entering the Java 
> class name if it is an atomic actor. Currenly, composite 
>actors cannot 
> be added this way.
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