Re: PlotWS software

[Tino W. <ti...@wi...>]

Kim Leng Goh wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I've been using the open source PlotWS software.
> 
> http://www.soton.ac.uk/~ghydflex/plotws/ :
> 
> "PlotWS provides a graph generation WebService. It is implemented as a
> wrapper around gnuplot and exposes a subset of gnuplot's
> functionality. The Web Service layer is implemented using Apache AXIS."
> 
> 
> Below, I like to share some steps I took to get the PlotWS software
> working on my Red Hat 9.0 system. Hopefully, they could be of help to others.
> 
> 1) Modify GraphSoapBindingImpl.java and change
> exe.run(exeGnuPlot + " \"" + cmdsFile + "\"", _tempDir, null);
> to
> exe.run(exeGnuPlot + " " + cmdsFile, _tempDir, null);

why dont you use a popen() (pipe) call to feed
your commands w/o the need for a tempfile
into gnuplot? It would also allow to read
stderr/stdout from gnuplot.

Regards
Tino