[ome-devel] Questions about initial development.

[Jason Swedlow]

Hi Glenn--

On 5 Oct 2006, at 14:48, Glenn Pierce wrote:

> Hi I am new to OME and have a few questions.
>

Thanks for your email.

> Where I work we have lots of applications that are C/C++ based  and so
> one of the tasks  I would need to complete is the creation of
> a C library to communicate with the OME server. I assume I would  
> need a
> http request library and a c based xml-rpc for
> communication and uploading images.
> Is there any previously c written code for this?
> If not does anyone have any suggestions on things I need to consider.

Ilya Goldberg would be best placed to answer this.  Can you tell us a  
bit more about what you want to do with this library?

>
> Also I saw that Omero is replacing the OME data server.
> How long before this replaces the existing OME server. Would you
> recommend development on that platform ?
> I am concerned about developing a lot of work that will be rendered
> useless soon.

I don't think OMERO will "replace" OME; probably the wrong way to  
think about it.  The two servers are being built to explore different  
functionality.   Currently the OME server is released and supported.   
This includes alot of useful functionality, most notably a well- 
established UI and an analysis and data provenance system that  
includes support for MATLAB. Note an increasing lists of papers  
published with this system on our Publications page.  A number of  
labs are using this system for their work.

OMERO is targetted towards supporting remote clients that are able to  
do more advanced image visulaization adn manipulation, and misses  
alot of the advanced analysis functionality of the OME server.

This separation should be seen as temporary, and just represents the  
difficulty of what we are trying to do.  We are working on a  
unification of these systems-- tell us what your needs are and we can  
help you decide where to target your efforts.

>
> Finally we deal with a image type called ICS. When importing these
> images I wish to pass the metadata out of the images and store it. Can
> someone point me to the place in the code that performed the  
> passing of
> metadata from an image.

The best source of info is at the BioFormats page:

http://loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats.html

Obviously, we'll help in any way we can.

Cheers,

Jason

>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Glenn Pierce
>
>
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