[ome-devel] Shoola implementation question

[Zachary Pincus]

Hello guys,

Sorry to intrude on the discussion, but I have been actively working on 
tools for just this. Despite dropping off the map for a couple of 
months, I have basically completed a long-promised C++ client library 
for communicating with OME over the network. (Still needs debugging and 
documentation.)

I mention this because the next step for this library is to write and 
distribute SWIG wrappers for it so people can easily communicate with 
OME from scripting languages. My personal needs are  to talk to OME 
from python, so that will be my first priority with the wrappers.

Anyhow, this might be another option for communicating with OME over 
XML-RPC rather than learning the specific shoola/OME::Remote protocol. 
I'm certainly most happy to share what I have now.

Just a thought,

Zach Pincus

Department of Biochemistry and Program in Biomedical Informatics
Stanford University School of Medicine


ps. If there is to be a discussion about the specifics of the remote 
framework, this information would help me make sure I got some of the 
corner cases correct in the library.



On Nov 16, 2004, at 4:52 PM, Jason Swedlow wrote:

> Hi richard-
>
> Apologies for not responding to your previous message.  Is great you 
> are looking at the system, just know that we are doing our best to 
> support our external people, while without any resources to do so.  We 
> are trying to fix that.
>
> Funny you should ask about Shoola-- currently our docs here are poor, 
> and this is causing all sorts of problems.  Chris and Andrea can 
> answer in the morning.  We are trying to assemble docs that describe 
> the current state.
>
> Maybe we can short circuit a long email thread with a video conf.  Do 
> you guys have such facilities that you can get access to?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason
>
>
> On 17 Nov 2004, at 00:45, Richard Beare wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>> I'm getting a student to look at some alternative client designs. 
>> We're thinking of something using a combination of python and fltk 
>> (we have a fair bit of experience with fltk image viewers). In 
>> scoping this idea we need to understand how the client server 
>> communications work so we can see whether the capabilities are 
>> readily available in python.
>>
>> So, what is the communication mechanism used by shoola, and which 
>> part of the code actually does this bit of the work? We have been 
>> poking around for a little while without finding out where things are 
>> done.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -- 
>> Richard Beare, CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences
>> Locked Bag 17, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia
>> Phone: +61-2-93253221 (GMT+~10hrs)  Fax: +61-2-93253200
>>
>> Richard.Beare at csiro.au
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