[protege-discussion] protégé API/development questions

[zhanjun li]

Thank you so much. I got it. However, I still
Wonder how my java application (like the example) will be integrated with
Protégé (GUI)? Will it have to be a new tab plugin?
May I make it as new menu option like "automatic loadin" under "File" menu
in Protégé? 

Thanks again,

James

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Subject: Re: [protege-discussion]protégé API/development questions

zhanjun li wrote:
> Hi, All
> I wonder is it possible to use protégé APIs to implement/expand 
> certain functionalities. For example, I want to automatically 
> read/build the protégé classes from a formatted txt file instead of 
> manually typed in protégé; I also want to automatically read the 
> slots/relations of each class from a formatted txt file.
> Should these be kind of plug-in or widget or none of them? any clues 
> of how to start it?
> I have looked over the wiki but I have not found any content which 
> exactly fits my needs.

A few import plugins (e.g., data genie, xml tab, umls tab) do something
similar to what you want to do. You can easily write a Java application that
(1) loads/creates a Protege project, (2) reads data from your formatted text
file, and (3) makes Protege API calls to create the appropriate classes,
slots, and instances, (4) save the project. Take a look at the example file
http://protege.stanford.edu/doc/pdk/BackendNewProjectExample.zip, which does
everything except reading data from an external file.

Samson
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