[protege-discussion] ProtegeJob class

[Jonathan Carter]

Thanks very much for your help Timothy!

This is excellent

Jonathan
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On 2 May 2008, at 05:40, Timothy Redmond wrote:

>
> Your approach sounds good.  ProtegeJob's are very flexible and are
> good for performance and unanticipated extensions to the client-server
> behavior.
>
>> Does this require that I deploy the my .class file for my
>> ProtegeJob on the server or is that all handled at runtime by the
>> ProtegeJob abstract class?
>> That is, there is no code deployment to the server required?
>
>
> By default the Protege server class loaders must already be able to
> find the ProtegeJob in question.  So the jar containing the ProtegeJob
> must already be in a plugin on the server.
>
> However with rmi it is quite possible to have classes get loaded
> dynamically.  I have not tried this with the Protege server and so I
> don't know whether their are any pitfalls.
>
> The one thing that needs some explanation is the notion of
> localization.  I  am not sure how best to explain this and will try to
> write a wiki soon.  The point is that knowledge bases are not
> transfered in the usual serialization between the Protege server and
> client.  So after a remote object is transferred to or from the server
> the knowledge base is lost from the transferred object.  The localize
> method is an opportunity for this knowledge base to be restored.
>
> So for example, we might have the following
>
>   public class MyProtegeJob extends ProtegeJob {
>       private Frame frameToBeModifiedOnServer;
>         ...
>       @Override
>       public localize(KnowledgeBase kb) {
>         super.localize(kb);
>         frameToBeModifiedOnServer.localize(kb);
>       }
>    }
>
> The localize method ensures that when the ProtegeJob arrives on the
> server the correct knowledge base is placed in the frameToBeModified.
>
> This might sound complicated but it isn't too bad and generally it
> just works.
>
> -Timothy
>
>
>
> On May 1, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Jonathan Carter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to be able to schedule my Protege server to perform certain
>> activities on projects.
>> Having done some research around the wiki and so on, it seems that
>> the ProtegeJob abstract class is just what I need.
>> However, I'm a little unsure about how to use it and would like to
>> confirm my approach before I go down a blind alley.
>>
>> So, my approach will be:
>>
>> 1. Create a class the extends ProtegeJob and in the run() method,
>> performs the activities I want to perform.
>> 2. Create a class that is a client of the Protege server which does
>> the following:
>> 	a. Connect to the server
>> 	b. Instruct it to load the specified project (not the meta project)
>> 	c. Instantiate my ProtegeJob class
>> 	d. Call execute() on my ProtegeJob class
>>
>> I like the sound of the documentation that suggests that in this
>> mode, the Protege job is copied to the server to be run there. Does
>> this require that I deploy the my .class file for my ProtegeJob on
>> the server or is that all handled at runtime by the ProtegeJob
>> abstract class?
>> That is, there is no code deployment to the server required?
>>
>> Thanks very much for your help
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jonathan
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