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Make ltpda_up.retrieve work with java.sql.Connection objects
author Daniele Nicolodi <nicolodi@science.unitn.it>
date Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:20:06 +0100
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2 <h2> Overview </h2>
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4 <p>
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5 An LTPDA Workbench is a collection of pipelines. Each pipeline can have sub-pipelines
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6 which are represented as <i>subsystem blocks</i> on the parent canvas. Nested subsystems
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7 are supported to any depth. </p>
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8 <p>
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9 Only one LTPDA Workbench can be open at any one time, but a collection of pipelines
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10 in a workbench saved on disk can be imported to the current workbench.
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11 </p>
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12 <p>
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13 Each block/element must have a unique name on a particular canvas.
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14 </p>
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15 <p>
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16 The following annotated screen-shot describes the main elements of the workbench
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17 interface:
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18 <br>
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19 <img src="images/lwb_overview.png" alt="Workbench Overview" border="3">
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20 <br>
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21 </p>
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23 <h2> Starting the Workbench </h2>
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25 <p>
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26 To start the LTPDA Workbench, click on the launcher on the LTPDA Launch Bay. Alternatively,
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27 the workbench can be started from the command window by typing:
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28 <div class="fragment"><pre>
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29 >> LTPDAworkbench
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30 </pre></div>
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31 </p>
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32 <p>
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33 You can also get a handle to the workbench so that you can use the programmatic interface. To do that
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34 <div class="fragment"><pre>
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35 >> wb = LTPDAworkbench
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36 </pre></div>
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38 If you loose the variable <tt>wb</tt>, for example, by using the <tt>clear</tt> command, then you can
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39 retrieve a handle to the workbench by doing
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40 <div class="fragment"><pre>
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41 >> wb = getappdata(0, <span class="string">'LTPDAworkbench'</span>);
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42 </pre></div>
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44 More advanced uses of the workbench command interface (such as creating pipelines from LTPDA objects), are
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45 described in <a href="lwb_buildProgram.html">Building pipelines programatically</a>.
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47 </p>