Thanks for your comments, Emil. > Sorry, my bad - thought you meant something similar to the MeV > webstart application in BASE 2.2. > > Still, would it not need to do authentication, data import, etc in a > more extensive fashion than a plug-in (feel free to correct me on > this)? Also, any and all of the computational load of the app would > be on the web server, rather than on the client (webstart) or > potential job servers (plug-in).
At the moment we do all the computation on the fly in Perl, but this won't scale to several tens of experiments and I think it will also be slower in BASE2 (going through the API rather than direct (and crude) SQL). Therefore we might cache the summary statistics - maybe in a simple non-BASE MySQL table. If we do that, we ought to make this a separate web application. I'll correct you on a few things: the summary tool wouldn't need to do data import. > If, on the other hand, computational time is negligible, there is no > need to export data back to BASE and/or adjustments are to be made > interactively, a webapp will do nicely. Just some thoughts. > > Regardless, I'm quite convinced a report/visualisation tool of this > kind implemented in a general fashion would find many uses in the > BASE community. We'll take a closer look at it to give you some > creative feedback. Thanks - that will be appreciated. Developers: are there any plans for BASE2 web gui plugins? cheers, Bob -- Bob MacCallum | VectorBase Developer | Kafatos/Christophides Groups | Division of Cell and Molecular Biology | Imperial College London | Phone +442075941945 | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ The BASE general discussion mailing list basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net unsubscribe: send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
