JSAMP v1.3-4

[Sylvain LAFRASSE]

Hello Mark,

Any news on a Maven availability ???

Best regards,
Sylvain


On 9 oct. 2013, at 15:45, Mark Taylor <m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> this announces the release of JSAMP v1.3-4.
> 
> Short story:
> 
>  - site and code have moved
>  - changes are fairly minor, 
>  - but hub deployers (e.g. authors of tools which may run the JSAMP hub) 
>    should upgrade
> 
> More detail follows.
> 
> Hosting:
> --------
> 
> Since AstroGrid, whose servers formerly hosted the codebase and
> documentation, doesn't really exist any more, and those servers
> are at risk, the hosting arrangements have changed.
> 
> The code is now hosted on github here:
> 
>   https://github.com/mbtaylor/jsamp
> 
> I extracted it from the AstroGrid SVN repository as a single item;
> history is preserved.
> 
> The website containing documentation, downloads etc can now be found
> here:
> 
>   http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/jsamp/
> 
> Changes:
> --------
> 
> Full details on the version history page here:
> 
>   http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/jsamp/history.html
> 
> The most important thing is that the Web Profile hub no longer blocks
> access to HTTPS-based web pages.  It used to do so, and I don't really
> know why, probably excessive paranoia or an oversight by my younger self.
> You may think this doesn't affect you, and you may be right, but if
> you deploy JSAMP in such a way that the hub can be run (for instance,
> if you distribute an application which allows the user to start a
> JSAMP hub), then using the older version means anybody using that hub
> will not be able to communicate with HTTPS-based web SAMP applications.
> You are encouraged to distribute the new version so that HTTPS web
> pages can play SAMP alongside HTTP ones.
> 
> There is also a new system parameter jsamp.web.extrahosts to support
> access from (e.g.) mobile devices, facilitating for instance the
> sort of thing developed by Maxime Heckel with Andre Schaaf "SkyTouch",
> reported here:
> 
>   http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpSep2013Applications/IVOASept2013-GWS-SkyTouch.pdf
> 
> Any feedback, bugs reports etc welcome.
> 
> Mark
> 
> --
> Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
> m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-9288776  http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/