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Raven


I’m currently looking into an old bug, TAV-480, that seems to have reappeared. This bug is related to Raven, our classloader system based on Maven that allows us to do plugins and network updates. I’ll come with another post about this bug, but first let’s do an introduction of Raven.
The idea of Raven is quite […]

Taverna 1.7.1 released


Taverna 1.7.1 was released today, including an updated preview of t2, the enactor of Taverna 2.0 scheduled for June 2008.
You can download 1.7.1 from SourceForge.

Stand up and be counted


Taverna workflows are full of shims. That’s a fact. Shims are the little adapter services, mostly using Beanshells, which convert the outputs of one workflow processor before sending it to the input of another. They are always being re-invented and 90% of the time do the same things - concatentate strings, swap […]

Data referencing in action in “Integrating ARC Grid with Taverna”


Daniel Bayer at University of Lübeck has implemented an ARC Grid plugin for Taverna for submitting job to the grid system ARC, in particular for usage with KnowARC. Bayer, together with Steffen Möller and Hajo N. Krabbenhöft also recently got published in Bioinformatics.
The work seems very promising, and in particular because it seems to have […]

Code freeze of Taverna 1.7.1


We’re hopefully doing our code freeze for Taverna 1.7.1 today, 2008-03-28.
There’s a few bug fixes, in addition to quite a bit of work on t2. There will also be a drag-and-drop-able, interactive workflow editor, basically you can edit the workflow by connecting lines between the processors. Those of you who remember Taverna 1.4 might notice […]