Announce: Workbench, AstroRuntime, Plastic Hub Release 2006.3.rc3

[Noel Winstanley]

The AstroGrid Team is pleased to announce the 2006.3.rc3 release of  
Workbench
and Astro Runtime.

	http://www.astrogrid.org/desktop


Changes in this version include:

   New Features:

o Astroscope, Myspace, Lookout now send Spectra Plastic Messages.
o Within Query Builder, it is now possible to sort columns within  
metadata
   display. Clicking on column header sorts alphabetically, either  
ascending
   or descending. Issue: 1790.
o Added community list combo box to login dialogue Issue: 1788.
o Added votable manipulator (STIL) to AR interface Issue: 1585.
o Reduced executable size, by stripping unused classes.
o Added a generic disk-caching component. Use it to cache registry  
resource
   objects and documents for a day or so.
o Implemented standard IVOA registry interface. Issue: 1413.

   Fixed bugs:

o Added caching of application info to improve responsiveness of  
workflow
   editor and application launcher. Issue: 1814.
o Astroscope now updates display when plastic apps register Issue: 1777.
o Astroscope handles non-standard siap responses Issue: 1780.
o Sorting of tables before metadata display. Correction of bug in  
metadata
   display preventing display when archive separately chosen.  
Correction of
   displaying of brackets in Query Builder Issue: 1768.
o Fixed parameterized workflow dialogue, and got workflows running  
again.
   Issue: 1505.
o Optimized registry interface - uses a streaming parser, improved data
   model. Marked old implementation as deprecated. Issue: 1574.
o can now delete from list of workfows Issue: 1710.
o Reorganised front UI tabs Corrected list of parameterised workflows  
Issue:
   1760,1754.
o Fixed helioscope to have a save button that was mising Changed 'To  
To Top'
   to 'Go To Top' and set shortcut key to 'G' for Astro and  
helioscope. Issue:
   1719.
o Fixed 'enter' or 'return' to work on Registry panel for workflow see
   bugzilla ticket 1366 Issue: 1366.
o Rephrased pop-up text on plastic registration. Issue: 1734.
o Removed "list" plastic applications button from all variants except  
plastic
   hub-only AR. Issue: 1757.
o Assorted other fixes: hub now self registers properly and responds to
   messages such as getName.
o XML-RPC return type conversion would fail in certain situations.  
XML-RPC
   plastic clients couldn't use getRegisteredIds for example. Issue:  
1762.
o Improved concurrency behaviour of Plastic hub, added more tests.  
Made hub
   more robust to duff clients. Hub now only unregisters xmlrpc  
clients when
   there's an IOException, not if the client faults.

   Changes:

o Improved formatting of registry entries
o Reworked registry google / application launcher / astroscope  
components to
   use new registry interface. Deleted applications and services aren't
   displayed anymore.

   Removed features:

o Reverted PW-launcher to load list of workflows from wiki page.

Enjoy!
-The AstroGrid Team



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Senior Java Developer, AstroGrid Project
Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester