Hi Kevin,
this depends on how you have created the .jar file. You should go to
the main page of the plugin.xml and find the Export Wizard link at the
lower right corner. This will provide you with the option to
create .jar file which can then be copied into the dropins folder. The
resulting file can then be used with any (binary) TopBraid
installation. If it doesn't work, please clarify.
Good luck
Holger
On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Kevin Matthews wrote:
>
> Holger,
>
> I have followed the tutorials and succesfully implemented the custom
> Java extensions. I can launch the plugin and run inferences and
> everything works fine in development mode. Now I am trying to deploy
> the Java code as a Jar file. Could you clarify this sentence a bit
> more: "For deployment, you can distribute your plugin as a jar file
> which your users then only need to copy into their eclipse/dropins
> folder."
>
> I have created a jar file of my custom code, added it to the {topbraid
> home}/dropins folder, restarted Eclipse, and run inferences. However,
> when I run instances in this manner, the custom java code does not get
> called.
>
> If the code is packaged as a Jar, do I still need to launch the
> secondary TopBraid plugin instance? Do I always have to do this?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
> On Jul 29, 6:02 pm, Holger Knublauch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Jul 29, 2009, at 2:44 PM, CF: wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>>> First I might have misinterpreted what step 4 in the tutorial was
>>> trying to do. I assumed it was creating a file that I could then
>>> place
>>> into any topbraid workspace to use the custom sparql function
>>> without
>>> having to launch a new instance from the the workspace of the custom
>>> java functions. Is this the wrong assumption?
>>
>> Yes this is not the right assumption. At development time you need to
>> put them into the Java workspace and Eclipse. For deployment, you can
>> distribute your plugin as ajarfile which your users then only need
>> to copy into their eclipse/dropins folder.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Second, I would much rather use the javascript functionality (we
>>> have
>>> already done allot of custom javascript in topbraid and it works
>>> great) but I need to be able to make SQL queries to a database based
>>> on passed values to a rule. From what I understand javascript is not
>>> capable of doing this. This is why we are looking at the custom
>>> sparql
>>> java functions. Do you have a suggestion for a better way to do this
>>> other than the custom sparql java.
>>
>> Assuming that the SQL queries are custom tailored (and cannot be
>> expressed in terms of, say, a D2RQ mapping, then using Java code
>> seems
>> indeed to be the only solution. If you have TBC-ME you may want to
>> look into SPARQLMotion as well, because then you could simply
>> define a
>> generic SPARQLMotion module for the SQL calls and use this in
>> multiple
>> places. We could probably add such a SQL module in general to the
>> standard SM modules library later.
>>
>> Holger
> >
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