[kepler-users] Kepler, adding composite actors?

[Dan Higgins]

Hi Wibke,

    I had noticed the same thing when we started using the latest PT 
version (either 5.0 beta or the head of PT CVS) recently. I am not sure 
why this fixed the problem with composite actors , but it did !

Dan

Wibke Sudholt (Baldridge) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I don't know what changed (might be the upgrade to the new Ptolemy II 5.0
>beta version or recent changes in the Kepler CVS or both), but I tried
>again today and dragging and dropping of composite actor classes seems to
>work now without errors :-) Very cool!!! Thanks a lot!!! And sorry for my
>pushing ;-)
>
>Best regards,
>
>Wibke
>
>
>On 19.5.2005 16:53 Uhr, "Matt Jones" <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
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>>Lots of us would like to have this working, and it is right on the top
>>of the list for some of the SEEK developers.  But it is complicated and
>>we are rearchitecting the system to support archive file formats that
>>should make it far easier for us to add in new actors or workflows that
>>are both locally and remotely stored to the system.  Both the KSW file
>>archive work and the Kepler Object Manager work will be involved in the
>>final system.  These are described here:
>>
>>http://kepler-project.org/Wiki.jsp?page=HotTopics
>>
>>If you really want this work to go faster, we would welcome help on the
>>development work.  Let me know if you have cycles to contribute.
>>    
>>
>Thanks!
>  
>
>>Matt
>>
>>Wibke Sudholt wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Regarding adding composite and MoML class actors in the actor tree, I
>>>      
>>>
>put in
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>>>a bug in the Kepler bug tracker a while ago, but to my knowledge it is
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>not
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>>>fixed yet. See:
>>>
>>>http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851
>>>
>>>You can observe the problem when you try some of our actors from the
>>>Resurgence project under Domain Specific/Computational Chemistry (some
>>>actors appear after printing an error, some hang up the Kepler
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>>>
>interface).
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>>>Any hints are very welcome!
>>>
>>>Good to know that I am not the only one who would like to have this
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>working
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>>>:-)
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>
>>>Wibke
>>>
>>>
>>>Dr. Wibke Sudholt
>>>Computational Grid Lead
>>>Institute of Organic Chemistry
>>>University of Zurich
>>>Winterthurerstrasse 190
>>>CH-8057 Zurich
>>>Switzerland
>>>Phone: +41 44 635 4222
>>>Email: wibke at oci.unizh.ch
>>>Web: http://www.baldridge.unizh.ch/~wibke/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On 19.05.2005 2:18, "Ralph Seguin" <seguin at lmsal.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>>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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>>  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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