[Coin-osi-devel] WebService

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Jun Ma wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> The OS project's mail list, I guess, hasn't been set up yet. We will ask the 
> related people to set us one at:
> http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/OS

Right.  We usually do that in preparation for the formal announcement. 
It's done now, though.


>
> Sometime over the next week, we will also put up a first stable version of 
> the Java (maybe also .net) on the OS Web site, which you can use to mainly 
> set up your server and services.
>
> Briefly, you my use OSSolverService either on the client end as an invokation 
> agent (OSSolverService is using OSSolver agent) or put OSSolverService in the 
> server container to run solver.
> Both the java and .net versions also have client side agent (named the same: 
> OSSolverAgent) that you can use and they are more complete.
>
> During the mean time, if you are in a hurry and have questions, please 
> contact us directly and we can guide you through the setup.
>
> Jun Ma
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kipp Martin" <kipp.martin at chicagogsb.edu>
> To: "Peter Zuidema" <pzuidema at octrium.nl>
> Cc: <coin-osi-devel at list.coin-or.org>; "Jun Ma @ NWU" <maj at northwestern.edu>; 
> <4er at iems.northwestern.edu>
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 1:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coin-osi-devel] WebService
>
>
>> Hi Peter:
>> 
>> Thanks for your interest in our OS project.
>> 
>> My sincere apologies for your difficulties. We have not formally announced 
>> this project to the public yet. We are working overtime night and day to 
>> get this going. It should be ready in a few weeks.
>> 
>> A few things.
>> 
>> 1) The wiki page
>> 
>> https://projects.coin-or.org/OS/wiki/ossolverservice
>> 
>> is a place holder right now, I just have not had time to fill it in. The 
>> esssential syntax for the OSSolverService is
>> 
>> OSSolverService -config path_to_config_file/configfile.config
>> 
>> Here is a sample config file
>> 
>> 
>> -osil ../data/parincLinear.osil
>> -solver cbc
>> -browser /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox
>> -osol ../data/demo.osol
>> -serviceLocation http://***/cbc/CBCSolverService.jws
>> -serviceMethod solve
>> 
>> 2) We have our project working on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows with the 
>> Microsoft cl compiler.  It is not working on cygwin yet.
>> 
>> I will email as soon as we are ready.  You can correspond with me directly 
>> by email.
>> 
>> Thank you, and again apologies for your trouble
>> 
>> -- 
>> Kipp Martin
>> Professor of Operations Research
>> and Computing Technology
>> Graduate School of Business
>> University of Chicago
>> 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
>> Chicago, IL 60637
>> 
>> 773-702-7456
>> 
>
>
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