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Launch your Browser


While developing the Taverna myExperiment plugin we needed some way of launching a browser when clicking on a link.  Launching a browser is fairly easy using Runtime.exec(”firefox”, URL);   However, how do you know what browsers are installed and what the default one is.  Step forward BrowserLauncher2 (http://browserlaunch2.sourceforge.net/).
BrowserLauncher launcher = new BrowserLauncher();
launcher.openURLinBrowser(”http://www.google.com”);
Job done.

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 […]

Google Summer of Code 2008


Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a programme hosted by Google that gives students a chance to work (and paid a scholarship) during the summer 2008 for an open source project.
We’re happy to announce that OMII-UK (the mother organisation of myGrid) has been accepted as one of GSoC’s mentoring organisations. Some of the ideas for […]

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 […]

Future visions


Writing a User Interface is quite often the hardest part of any development job. Everyone likes different look and feel and they seem to take forever to develop. I tend to hand code using Swing (Java’s default GUI) because I have not found an interactive GUI designer which I am comfortable with. […]