Shark: Re: Shark: Important announcment !!!

Hello

Excellent news!  I obtained my CVS copy as soon as I saw the 
message and have been happily using it for much of today.  I 
look forward to the new features in the next releases with  
much anticipation - keep up the great work!

I've been using the JavaClassToolAgent quite a bit today and 
thought I'd share a couple of bits of information, that may not 
be immediately obvious to somebody just starting to look at the 
Tool Agents:

* Firstly, if you run the Shark applications individually (i.e. 
you don't use the runAll script), then don't forget to run the 
sharktoolagents.jar file.  More importantly, don't kill it off 
when you see the message "Tool agents registered with the 
nameserver" and it appears to be doing nothing - IT NEEDS TO BE 
KEPT RUNNING IN THE BACKGROUND.  This application doesn't just 
register the Tool Agents - it runs them too.  Perhaps the 
addition of a "runTA" script that runs this code a similar way 
to tns, run, etc, would be useful (I'll be happy to come up with 
the files if necessary)?.

* Secondly, if you're using the JavaClassToolAgent, bear in 
mind that any of your classes (and dependent classes) that are to 
be called by the Agent need to be in the classpath of the Tool 
Agent program.  I.e. instead of simply running:

java -jar sharktoolagents.jar <NS_HOST> <NS_PORT> <YOURCOMPUTERNAME>

It is more useful to run:

java -cp <yourClasspathDetails>:sharktoolagents.jar 
org.webdocwf.util.pea.ToolAgentService <NS_HOST> <NS_PORT> <YOURCOMPUTERNAME>


That's it!  Hopefully these tips may save some people from a 
little bit of head scratching.

Apologies if this information has already been covered on 
the mailing list since this morning - I don't get to see any 
updates to the list until the following morning.

Best regards

Rich.

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