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plug-ins via email, flash drives, or on-line. To use new plug-ins, simply copy
the files into the plug-in directory, and
they appear in the tool menu ready for
use. No restart of the tool is necessary.
Sharing algorithm components, tools,
and novel interfaces becomes as easy
as sharing images on Flickr or videos
on You Tube. Assembling custom tools
is as quick as compiling your custom
music collection.
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The macroscopes presented here
were built using the Open Services
Gateway Initiative Framework (OSGi)
industry standard and the Cyberinfrastructure Shell (CIShell) that supports integration of new and existing
algorithms into simple yet powerful
tools. As of January 2011, six different
research communities were benefit-ting from OSGi and/or CIShell powered
tools. Several other tool-development
efforts consider adoption.
Related Work
Diverse commercial and academic ef-
forts support code sharing; here, I dis-
cuss those most relevant for the design
and deployment of plug-and-play mac-
roscopes:
Google Code and SourceForge.net
provide the means to develop and dis-
tribute software; for example, in August
2009, SourceForge.net hosted more
than 230,000 software projects by two
million registered users (285,957 in
January 2011); also in August 2009 Pro-
grammableWeb.com hosted 1,366 ap-
plication programming interfaces and
4,092 mashups ( 2,699 APIs and 5,493
mashups in January 2011) that combine
data or functionality from two or more
sources to arrive at a service.
