Poster Topic: Protégé integration with the Eclipse platform

Presenter/Coordinator: Thomas Johnson
Team members: Thomas Johnson, Harold Solbrig, Dan Armbrust
Organization: Mayo Foundation Division of Biomedical Informatics

Description:
The Eclipse Platform (http://www.eclipse.org) provides an 
extensible open source framework for tools integration. While this framework is 
separate from the Protégé application and plug-in architecture, it is possible 
to provide meaningful interaction between the two environments.

Historically, there have been barriers to establishing this interaction, 
foremost being incompatible widget toolkits (Eclipse SWT versus JFC/Swing). 
However, this situation has changed with the introduction of Eclipse Version 
3.0, which allows Swing-based components to reside within Eclipse-based 
views.

This poster will demonstrate interaction between the two environments, 
highlighted by working examples. We will disseminate code to monitor Protégé 
events from Eclipse plug-ins, as well as to communicate with Protégé objects and 
user interface components from Eclipse views.

In addition to demonstration, we are hopeful that the poster session will 
encourage informal discussion regarding potential enhancements and future 
direction for this work.

An initial description of this work is available at 
http://informatics.mayo.edu/index.php?page=220; enhancements are anticipated
by the time of the conference. (Note: in the event that the direct link changes,
please go to http://informatics.mayo.edu and select
Implementation->LexGrid Editor->Protege/Eclipse via the left-hand panel).