[protege-discussion] ProtegeJob class

[Dr Michael Waters]

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From: Timothy Redmond <tredmond at stanford.edu>
Sent: 02 May 2008 05:40
To: User support for Core Protege and the Protege-Frames editor <protege-discussion at mailman.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: [protege-discussion] ProtegeJob class


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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