JSAMP v1.3-4

[Mark Taylor]

no.  I don't remember the context of this discussion.  Did I say
there might be something maven-related?  Do you want that?  If so,
what exactly and why?

Mark

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Sylvain LAFRASSE wrote:

> 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/
> 
> 

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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/