[seek-dev] Ptolemy-II EML plug-in

Mladen A. Vouk vouk at csc.ncsu.edu
Mon May 19 11:11:45 PDT 2003


Thank you. Appreciate it.
mav

Chad Berkley wrote:

> Yep, the code is there.  There is also an ant build file to make 
> installation a bit easier.  To get it to work do the following:
>
> 1) download the source distro of Ptolemy II from their site.
> 2) build it with make (make sure you set the PTII env. variable 
> correctly).
> 3) check out the seek, monarch and configxml cvs modules from 
> cvs.ecoinformatics.org
> 4) go into the seek/projects/ams/src/exp/ptolemytest directory.  Edit 
> the build.xml file so that the paths are correct.  You should only 
> have to change the first 3 properties (the ones above the echo command).
> 5) to run the vergil editor, run 'ant vrun', to run the ptolemy 
> execution environment, run 'ant prun'.
>
> That should be it...if you run into problems, get ahold of me on irc 
> or write me email.  Note that the build file works great in linux, but 
> requires some hacks in windows.  If you want to run it under windows, 
> let me know and I'll send you a hacked build file.  If you even want 
> to consider running it under windows, you need a full cygwin 
> installation.
>
> chad
>
> Bertram Ludaescher wrote:
>
>> Chad et al:
>>
>> The SciDAC/SDM team (http://sdm.lbl.gov/sdmcenter/) is considering to
>> use Ptolemy-II to design and execute scientific workflows.
>>
>> Since you have already built an EML plug-in for SEEK, would it be
>> possible to share that code with the other folks on SEEK-dev? I think 
>> this would give the SDM developers a head start on where to
>> change Ptolemy to build new add-ons etc.
>>
>> My hope is that SEEK and SDM folks mutually benefit from sharing 
>> their experiences on extending Ptolemy. Maybe one could even try to 
>> make the extensions compatible with one another.
>>
>> An obvious extension that would help everyone is the ability to have
>> an "WSDL/web service actor" such that a node in a workflow/pipeline
>> can execute remotely...
>>
>> What do you guys think about all that?
>>
>> Maybe the easiest way is to check into CVS the modifications that you
>> made to Ptolemy-II (unless they are already there!). I think there is
>> already read-access to world.
>>
>> ... ok, I just went to:
>> http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/seek/projects/ams/src/exp/ptolemytest/ 
>>
>>
>> ... and found that the code is already there!!
>>
>> Chad -- you're so good!
>>
>> SDM-ers: please have a look at the above Ptolemy extensions. It 
>> provides a "plug-in" for EML files (Ecology Metadata Language).
>> I'm sure Chad Berkley will be glad to provide any insight he got to
>> the SEEK-dev list (Sandeep and Ilkay are already on I think).
>>
>> Ilkay: could you have a look at the EML extension and see whether you
>> can get it to run? Thanks!
>>
>> Maybe we can also create a document/technical note with ancillary
>> documentation for extending/modifying Ptolemy, and put that into the
>> CVS repository as well.
>>
>> Bertram
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