[kepler-dev] calling kepler from Open Office Calc

[Rick Moore]

Some of our scientists have asked us to investigate the possibility of 
calling Kepler workflows directly from Open Office Calc. The desire is 
to use Calc's builtin abilities to select columns for 
analysis/validation, run a workflow on those columns and display 
results/changes directly within the spreadsheet.

I don't have a lot of experience with Kepler, but my gut feel is that we 
would have to run Kepler as a batch process from OO and transfer data 
between them via temp files. Has anyone investigated this before ? Or 
does anyone on the Kepler dev team have any insights as to how difficult 
it would be to do something that integrates the two apps more tightly ?

Rick Moore
Content Management Specialist
Information Science
Cornell University