Re: Server - java and python

I started working on a Python wrapper a few years ago. It was pretty
simple but was doing the basics. I can try to fish this out if anyone
would like to look at it (assuming that I can find it).
Christian

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Thomas Russ <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Apr 6, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Arnkell Logi P=E9tursson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm working on this project here:
>> http://cadia.ru.is/wiki/public:socialgame:main
>>
>> I have a program in Python that needs to write to Powerloom and
>> another
>> code in Java that needs to read from the same KB. What would be the
>> best
>> way to achieve this? Has anybody implemented a server that I could
>> use?
>
> Well, from the Java perspective, the very simplest method of working
> with PowerLoom is to just do it directly. =A0So one option would be to
> just run the PowerLoom code in Java and have your Python program
> communicate with that Java program using a method of your own choosing.
>
> A second method would be to use a SOAP-server interface to PowerLoom.
> We have created a simple server like that, which allows manipulation
> and querying of PowerLoom knowledge bases. =A0As long as you can have
> Python operate using the appropriate SOAP protocol, you could work
> with this. =A0As it happens, we are close to finishing up some work on
> making PowerLoom server systems a lot easier to deploy. =A0Now I should
> also note that there isn't any security built into the SOAP protocol
> itself, so you would really need to implement the security using an
> external protocol.
>
> As for a Python interface, there isn't anything that I'm aware of for
> communicating directly with PowerLoom through any sort of a Python
> interface.
>
>
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Christian Blouin, Assoc. Prof.
Faculty of Computer Science AND
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada