JSAMP v1.3-4

[Mark Taylor]

Sylvain,

I do build JSAMP with maven; the machinery to do it is visible
in the github repository (https://github.com/mbtaylor/jsamp/).

However, I use maven 1 which is presumably prehistoric.
You can see some notes in the file README.maven2 about my attempts
to update the build.  However, I'm not really a maven enthusiast,
and if I was going to tidy up the build for my purposes I'd probably
go back to ant or make rather than forward to maven 3(?).
This is partly because I do various complicated things to build
the site documentation for which maven seems to be more a hindrance
than a help.

If somebody else wanted to make some changes to the build to modernise
the mavenisation in a way that didn't break anything I probably
wouldn't object, but I don't currently have plans to do it myself.

Mark

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Sylvain LAFRASSE wrote:

> 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/
> 
> 

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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/