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

[Bertram Ludaescher]

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