FITS Java library with WCS routines?

[Gerard Lemson]

Petr and others

On http://imagelib.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Horizon/releases.html#FITSWCS
there are links to Java FITS WCS code that I have used in the past.
Quote:

"
FITSWCS 2.4
This package is a translation of the WCSLIB C library by Mark Calabretta
into Java. This library implements the FITS World Coordinate Systems
convention, providing position transformations between a spherical surface
and its projection onto a map plane. The translation of this library was
carried out to support the generalized coordinate classes in
ncsa.horizon.coordinates; however, they can easily be used independently of
the Horizon package.
This package is now available for distribution as a gzip-ed tar file. (Other
distribution formats coming soon.)
"

Address for download:
ftp://imagelib.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/java/FITSWCS-2.4.tar.gz

"
This Java package may also be obtained as part of the WCSLIB distribution
(Ver 2.4) by Mark Calabretta which also contains versions implemented in C
and FORTRAN. This distribution can be obtained from:
Australia: ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/wcslib/
USA (mirror): http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/src/wcs/
"


Gerard


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Killeen, Neil (ATNF, Marsfield) [mailto:owner-apps at eso.org]On
> Behalf Of Neil.Killeen at csiro.au
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:42 AM
> To: apps at ivoa.net
> Subject: RE: FITS Java library with WCS routines?
>
>
> Petr
>
> I think it would be very valuable for someone to write the Java
> wrappers to WCS.   Here in Melbourne Uni we are thinking
> about exactly the same issue as we look at deploying
> SIA etc in a generic way - being able to use Java makes
> the deployment of these web services much more straight
> forwards than if we use a C or C++ backend.
>
> The Starlink AST library is comprehensive and offers more functionality
> than WCS (e.g. conversions between frames which WCS is not concerned
> with).  However, it is also provided in C is it not, and Starlink is
> no longer funded.
>
> I'd prefer also to see a set of Java wrappers for WCS. However,
> it means that someone will need to maintain them and keep
> them upto date with new WCS releases.
>
>
> regards
> Neil
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	owner-apps at eso.org on behalf of Petr Kubanek
> Sent:	Fri 4/11/2005 9:32 AM
> To:	apps at ivoa.net
> Cc:
> Subject:	FITS Java library with WCS routines?
>
> Hi everbody,
>
> I'm working on INTEGRAL data VO acceess, using Oracle DB to store image
> metadata and Tomcat on Linux/Solaris as servlet container. I manage to
> write few servlets that offer SIA, VOTable cataloq access and more.
>
> For offering cutout service, I need to transform WCS coordinates to
> pixel coordinates. As far as I have searched:
>
> - there is nom.tam.fits Java package, which offers FITS access (and
> after some patching it even works with INTEGRAL fits, which are huge and
> gzipped). As was noted by Starlink, that library isn't ideal - its
> interface sometimes throw exception and sometimes returns null, so far I
> have searched there is no way how to get if given FITS key exists, etc..
>
> - there is ast package in starlink, which I don't like a lot (JNI, e.g.
> it runs only on Linux & Solaris). And ast is "kind of dinosaurus", which
> offers all posible services (drawing of RA & DEC lines,..) - I don't
> like that, I prefer pure Java library which will do only for which it's
> paid, e.g provide WCS transformations from pixel and to pixel coordinates.
>
> Does anybody of you know about some better implementation of FITS
> library with WCS access? If not, I volunteer to try write such. But I
> don't like idea of reinventing wheel - so if somebody knows about one,
> please let me know.
>
> And second think - I patched a bit Starlink library for VOTable
> generation, so for servlet for access to table I need youst few more
> lines then it's in columns I need to get from DB. Hovewer, I think about
> writing JSP tag library, which will do that. My idea is to write JSP
> page which will look like:
>
> <@vo:table name="xyz">
>     <@vo:column name="ra" ucd="pos.equ.ra"/>
>     <@vo column name="dec" ucd="pos.equ.dec"/>
> ....
> </vo:table>
>
> which will generate VOTable/HTML table/text file, as will be requested
> in parameters.
>
> Does anybody consider such think?
>
> Regards
>
> Petr Kubanek
>
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