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The MetWare components are slowly coming together. The RAW data upload facility prototype went into beta stage,\nwhile the SKOS has proven really useful for various things.

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Because of being compatible with various Java libraries and tools, we decided some time ago to use Java. We also wanted to start of with a\nHTML GUI to MetWare, which led us to Java Server Faces. Not being so fond of Tomcat (e.g.\nuse by the NMRShiftDB), I was not sure how that would turn out, but Steffen was rather positive about it. And I like it :)

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The source code for this screenshot is rather simple:

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<table>\n  <tr valign=\"top\">\n    <td><br/>Monoisotopic Mass:<br/>\n          min=<inputText id=\"monomassmin\" value=\"#{metidMetaboliteQuery.monoisotopicMassMin}\"/><br/>\n          max=<inputText id=\"monomassmax\" value=\"#{metidMetaboliteQuery.monoisotopicMassMax}\"/><br/>\n        <commandButton value=\"Search\" id=\"submit\" action=\"#{metidMetaboliteQuery.search}\"/>\n\n        <!--  search results -->\n        <p><dataTable value=\"#{metidMetaboliteQuery.results}\" var=\"mbolite\">\n           <facet name=\"caption\">Search Results...</facet>\n           <column>\n             <facet name=\"header\"><outputText value=\"Monoisotopic mass\"/></facet>\n             <outputText value=\"#{mbolite.monoisotopicMass}\"/>\n           </column>\n           <column>\n             <facet name=\"header\"><outputText value=\"InChIKey\"/></facet>\n             <outputText value=\"#{mbolite.inchikey}\"/>\n           </column>\n         </dataTable></p>\n        </td>\n    <td width=\"25%\">\n      <b><outputText id=\"tabelName\" value=\"#{metidMetabolite.prefLabel}\"/>:</b>\n      <br/>\n      <outputText id=\"tabelDef\" value=\"#{metidMetabolite.definition}\"/>\n    </td>\n  </tr>\n</table>\n
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Key concept here is that JSF uses Java Beans, which are referred to in the above example with code like #{bean.field}\nfor bean fields, and with #{bean.method}, assuming a bean exists with getField(), setField() and method().\nThe <h:outputText> stuff is JSF to work out bean details and will create HTML in the output. As really brief intro.

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The Metware Beans

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It is clear that java beans for Metware would be useful, and this is what I have been working on for the last few weeks.\nThe relevant beans for the above example are automagically created from the SKOS, complemented with extra bits of RDF\nfor the additional details, like field data type, mapping to SQL tables, and an example value. This all works very\nsmoothly (the code to load() and save() into the SQL database is automatically generated too!) as you can see in\nthe above example. The screenshot shows matches from a (local) live SQL metabolomics database. The text on the right\nside is directly taken from the SKOS.

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Now, the bean library allows integration with other tools too, though this cannot be found in our current roadmap.\nBut, for example, I have been thinking about a simple Bioclipse wrapper around these\nbeans. What is on our roadmap involves workflows for metabolomics.

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