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Single Instance Webstart : RFC 22

Editor(s): Sarah Killcoyne

About this document

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Status

12/12/06 Preliminary writeup, comments appreciated

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Proposal

Use of Cytoscape via webstart could be easier and permit greater functionality to be available to a webstart user if only single instances are permitted but new arguments can be passed to the original instance from a new jnlp.

Biological Questions / Use Cases

Use Case:

1. U Mich has a website front end to a molecular interactions database. Links on the site open new instance of cytoscape. This prevents any cross-network functions from being used.

2. t1dbase.org has website front end to multiple protein-protein sources. Also opens multiple instances.

General Notes

By opening multiple instances cross-network functions are unavailable. However, there are cases where a new instance may be desirable so it needs to be an option.

ISSUES:

If the jnlp’s are different in the plugins loaded (or any other library) the original instance will not get any plugins added in (or removed). Arguments may need to be checked and a new instance opened if this is the case.
This can be done as a plugin, however there would need to be a way to let all other plugins know about new arguments (maybe this is already available?).

Requirements

From the JDK 1.5 jnlp.jar SingleInstanceService and SingleInstanceListener

The jnlp.jar file currently included in libs would need to be updated.

Deferred Items

Open Issues

Backward Compatibility

Expected growth and plan for growth

References

Download single instance plugin: [http://db.systemsbiology.net/cytoscape/skillcoyne/TestPlugin.jar]

Source code for plugin: [http://db.systemsbiology.net/cytoscape/skillcoyne/TestPluginSource.zip]

Implementation Plan

["/Implementation Plan"]

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