A simple Hello World Swift tool to run with Galaxy.

To set up with your Galaxy environment follow the steps below:
0. Prerequisite: Sun/Oracle java. Should work with IBM java but not tested rigorously.

1. Download and install Swift where Galaxy server is running. From a command prompt the following wget will pull the latest release:

wget http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/packages/swift-0.94.1.tar.gz

Do untar at a suitable location:

tar zxf swift-0.94.1.tar.gz

Put the bin dir on system PATH:

export PATH=$PATH:/location/to/swift-0.94.1/bin

Edit above line to match the location of Swift and add it to your environment file (.bashrc, .bash_profile or the corresponding ones for other shells).

Make sure Swift is available from a command prompt:

which swift
swift -version

2. untar and copy the swift-galaxy.tgz to the tools directory of your Galaxy location:

tar zxf swift-galaxy.tgz

cp -r swift-galaxy /location/of/galaxy-server/tools/

3. Edit the tool_conf.xml file present at the top-level of galaxy-server directory tree to add the following lines between the <toolbox> and </toolbox> xml tags:

<section name="swift-hello" id="swift-hello">
  <tool file="swift-galaxy/helloswift.xml" />
</section>

4. Restart the Galaxy server. The swift-galaxy tool should be available in the tool box of Galaxy GUI.

5. Invoke it by entering any number in the dialog box or leaving it to default. A message "Hello World!" will be written to output files as many times and the files should be available for browsing from Galaxy GUI.

Please note that the Cluster option is not implemented in this example.