Announce: ACR 1.1-beta

[Noel Winstanley]

Hi,
AstroGrid are happy to announce the beta release of the 'AstroGrid Client 
Runtime' - ACR. The ACR provides a simple way of accessing VO services from 
client-side scripts and applications with a minimum amount of effort.

http://software.astrogrid.org/jnlp/astrogrid-desktop/

 The main improvements of this release are
* Redesign of the ACR interfaces:
   * now an effective, self-contained, facade to AstroGrid
   * more logical naming conventions
   * additional helper functions.
* Full documentation of the ACR interface, and examples of use via XMLRPC and 
JavaRMI - 
http://www.astrogrid.org/maven/docs/HEAD/desktop/multiproject/acr-interface/apidocs/index.html
* Java RMI interface to the ACR - 
http://software.astrogrid.org/jnlp/astrogrid-desktop/acr-interface.tar.gz
* Finder class to automatically locate or create an ACR instance.

The ACR interface can be considered stable - function names and parameters 
aren't going to change again. The beta refers to the implementation - there 
may be a few bugs to iron out before the final 1.1 is released.

Feedback gratefully received.
cheers
noel

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Noel.Winstanley at manchester.ac.uk / nw at jb.man.ac.uk  07941 639 323
Senior Java Developer, Astrogrid Project.
Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester.