JSAMP v1.3-4

[Sylvain LAFRASSE]

Since previous version of jSAMP were available through Maven, I wondered if this would also be the case again someday now that you changed your hosting arrangements ?

Sylvain

On 20 nov. 2013, at 17:41, Mark Taylor <m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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/
>> 
>> 
> 
> --
> 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/