[kepler-users] Packaging Actors

[Aaron Schultz]

Hi Jim,

This functionality of Kepler is actively being worked on at the moment, 
your best bet is to update often to the HEAD.
You should see a "Save Archive (KAR)" option both from the main menu and 
from right clicking on the background of your workflow and that should 
be used to save an actor to a KAR.  As for saving multiple actors to a 
KAR there really isn't a mechanism for doing this at the moment.  It 
would be nice if you could just drag actors around in the library and 
drop them into KAR files but we're not there yet.  In the meantime you 
can try packaging the moml files together using the standard java jar 
tool and modifying the manifest appropriately (i.e. rolling the 
revisions on the LSIDs).  That should work but has not undergone much 
testing at the moment.  If you do try that make sure the classes used by 
those MoMLs are somewhere on the classpath at runtime.  We are hoping to 
include a tool in the build system for the 2.0 release which will 
automate this for you and allow you to specify dependencies on Kepler 
modules that will ensure the proper classes are present for running the 
MoML files stored inside the KAR package.

Aaron


Jim Amrhein wrote:
> Hello,
>     I'm attempting  to package  3 Actors that I created using the Aug 
> 10th 1.x DEV build. The problems I'm running  into are :
>        1. The actor isn't being saved to my local repository.  A Kar 
> is created, but only the  MANIFEST.MF file
>            resides in the Kar file. Actually, I haven't seen the 
> option to save the actor in the
>            local repository in this build like I did with an earlier 
> version (I was using the July 13 th, 2009 build)
>           Did I miss something?
>        2. In the  both 1.x versions , when the Kar is created, the  
> MOML file isn't included.  Is this a bug? Should I try
>             to create it by hand?
>        3. I know I'm playing with the "latest/greatest" version which 
> can be dangerous. Is there any build night
>            you recommend we should be using instead (until 2.0 comes out)
>
> Thanks,
>          Jim
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