The GENSS project has developed a flexible generic brokerage framework based on the use of plug-in components that are themselves web services. The focus in GENSS has been on mathematical web services, but the broker itself is domain independent and it is the plug-ins that act as sources of domain-specific knowledge. A range of plug-ins has been developed that offer a variety of matching techno...

A new software configuration method using plug-in style components was established for the tool with the incremental development of software used in protein structural study. Our memory database provides the interface of data and functions among plug-in modules and its host program. A molecular structure browser program was developed together with several plug-in modules on our programming libr...

We consider functional measurement error models where the measurement error distribution is estimated non-parametrically.We derive a locally efficient semiparametric estimator but propose not to implement it owing to its numerical complexity. Instead, a plug-in estimator is proposed, where the measurement error distribution is estimated through non-parametric kernel methods based on multiple me...

The XML-Security Plug-In is a freely available plug-in for the Eclipse platform and provides versatile XML security features in an educational software like environment. Users can experiment with XML security and inform themselves about the corresponding W3C recommendations. The aim of the plug-in is to raise interest in XML security functions and especially encourage users to sign and encrypt ...

In this paper, we present a lightweight but powerful plug-in container which provides advanced features such as dynamic class loading, dependency, configuration, and security management. We highlight the deployment mechanism which allows to publish, install, and update plug-ins from arbitrary sources at runtime. Furthermore, we introduce the Trooth voting and trust system which is used to asses...

Seminal fluid proteins affect fertility at multiple stages in reproduction. In many species, a male's ejaculate coagulates to form a copulatory plug. Although taxonomically widespread, the molecular details of plug formation remain poorly understood, limiting our ability to manipulate the structure and understand its role in reproduction. Here I show that male mice knockouts for transglutaminas...

This whitepaper presents a new application integration technology that is supported in ZyIMAGE 5.0 document management software. The technology is based on a plug-in architecture in which dynamic load modules can be developed that inject external document meta data in the ZyIMAGE search engine and document object model. First a short introduction to the object model is presented followed by a t...

Harness is a reconÞgurable, heterogeneous distributed metacomputing framework for the dynamic conÞguration of distributed virtual machines, through the use of parallel ”plug-in” software components. A parallel plug-in is a software module that exists as a synchronized collection of traditional plug-ins distributed across a parallel set of resources. As a follow-on to PVM, the Harness kernel pro...