[Biojava-l] Java and commandline applications

[Alan Robinson]

Dear Subba,

You may also want to have a look at the 'AppLab' application developed by
Martin Senger at the EBI:

  http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/applab/

It provides a CORBA interface to the command-line driven programs (so
you're not limited to using Java).

AppLab's main goal is to develop a distributed object system, which
provides an easy-to-use and well-defined access to a large set of existing
command-line-driven applications of different types (especially those in
bioinformatics).

In summary it means that:

 - AppLab uses CORBA communication between a computer executing a
   command-line program, and the client computers. The used IDL is a
   standard specification approved by OMG (module DsLSRAnalysis). Details
   available, for example, from the OpenBSA project.

 - The IDL allows to invoke remote programs, to control them, and to
   deliver back their results.

 - AppLab implementation is based on metadata. This approach makes
   possible to plug-in new applications without any additional
   programming.

 - The implementation is easily extensible by the domain-specific data
   objects (such as special data structures needed in bioinformatics)


Alan.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Subba_Raju [mailto:Subba_raju@i-labs.ws]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:11 PM
> To: biojava-l@biojava.org
> Subject: [Biojava-l] (no subject)
> 
> 
> dear biojava associates,
> i am somewhat new to java.
> my problem is that i have an exe( i have only binaries ) 
> application which
> actually takes some command line arguments but i dont want to 
> access the
> application through the command line instead my need is to give those
> arguments through java code .
> can any one please suggets me classes or methods for making 
> this possible
> thanks for ur  earlier attention 
> thanks inadvance
> Subba Raju,
> iL@bs
> India
> 
> 
> 
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