[kepler-dev] calling kepler from Open Office Calc

[Christopher Brooks]

Hi Rick,
Yes, one way would be to invoke Kepler as a headless application from Open Office Calc.
You can set model parameters from the command line, see
http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/pipermail/kepler-dev/2009-July/015343.html

If Open Office Calc can invoke a Java program, then you can invoke Kepler.

For information about going the other way, where Kepler communicates with Excel,
see
http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/pipermail/kepler-dev/2009-July/015343.html
and
https://embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38

_Christopher



----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Moore <rem63 at cornell.edu>
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 2:17 pm
Subject: [kepler-dev] calling kepler from Open Office Calc
To: kepler-dev at kepler-project.org

> 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
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