[Ctk-developers] CTK announcement: command line module support

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Hi Sasha,

Congrats. Very well done. Also like the exhaustive documentation :)

Thanks for working on this,
Jc

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Sascha Zelzer
<s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de>wrote:

> Hi CTK developers and interoperability enthusiasts,
>
> I would like to announce the immediate availability of a set of support
> libraries in CTK which aim at easing the process of integrating command
> line modules in existing or new applications. For an overview of the new
> features, please see
>
> http://www.commontk.org/docs/**html/CommandLineModules_Page.**html<http://www.commontk.org/docs/html/CommandLineModules_Page.html>
>
> and the wiki page here
>
> http://www.commontk.org/index.**php/Documentation/Command_**Line_Interface<http://www.commontk.org/index.php/Documentation/Command_Line_Interface>
>
> Here is some more background information:
>
> Since many years, Slicer [1] is capable of interfacing with command line
> modules and to automatically generate a GUI [2] from an XML description of
> the modules parameters [3]. Because of the very loose coupling (via command
> line arguments), the potential reuse of such command line modules is very
> high. However, other (medical imaging) toolkits and applications needed to
> invest quite some development time if they wanted to support a similar
> feature set. For example, Gimias [4] implemented a Slicer compatible
> command line module support [5].
>
> Therefore, two years ago at the CTK Hackfest in Barcelona [6], the work on
> a toolkit independent command line module support library began. Along the
> same line, interoperability of software modules has been discussed at a VPH
> workshop in 2011 [7] and command line modules have been identified as a
> promising, low-barrier integration approach.
>
> Finally, a couple of Hackfests later and with the help of many developers
> (among them Julien Finet, Xavier Planes, Yves Martelli, and Matt Clarkson)
> we can now provide a stable, feature-rich, and customizable set of
> libraries which should make the handling of command line modules and the
> automatic GUI generation straight-forward.
>
> A currently developed MITK plug-in by Matt Clarkson from University
> College London successfully uses the CTK libraries to provide support for
> command line module handling in MITK [8].
>
> In the near future, we (the medical imaging community) are hopefully able
> to re-use such command line modules in a variety of toolkits and
> applications, making existing and new modules accessible to a broad range
> of researchers and end-users.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sascha Zelzer
>
>
> [1]: http://www.slicer.org
> [2]: http://wiki.slicer.org/**slicerWiki/index.php/File:**
> Slicer4-ACPC.jpeg<http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/File:Slicer4-ACPC.jpeg>
> [3]: http://www.slicer.org/**slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer3:**
> Execution_Model_Documentation<http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer3:Execution_Model_Documentation>
> [4]: http://gimias.org/
> [5]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?**feature=player_embedded&v=**
> KBRfeuZLBAM#<http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KBRfeuZLBAM#>
> !
> [6]: http://www.commontk.org/index.**php/CTK-Hackfest-September-**2010<http://www.commontk.org/index.php/CTK-Hackfest-September-2010>
> [7]: http://www-sop.inria.fr/**asclepios/events/VPHimaging11/**
> organisation.htm<http://www-sop.inria.fr/asclepios/events/VPHimaging11/organisation.htm>
> [8]: See attached file MITK_CLI.png
>
>
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