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Hello Apps and Grid lists,<br>
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New release of the CDS/ARI's TAP, UWS and ADQL libraries are
finally available! They are respectively version 2.0, 4.1 and 1.3. <br>
<br>
You can download them here:<br>
- <a href="http://cdsportal.u-strasbg.fr/taptuto">http://cdsportal.u-strasbg.fr/taptuto</a><br>
- <a href="http://cdsportal.u-strasbg.fr/uwstuto">http://cdsportal.u-strasbg.fr/uwstuto</a><br>
- <a href="http://cdsportal.u-strasbg.fr/adqltuto">http://cdsportal.u-strasbg.fr/adqltuto</a><br>
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PS: Java >= 1.6 is required.<br>
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About the TAP Library<br>
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<br>
It is now about a year that I am working to make it more stable
and conform to the IVOA Recommendation. Thanks to feedbacks of
several users, a lot of bugs have been fixed. Some parts, like
UPLOAD, have been re-designed properly. And new features are also
available, like:<br>
* TAP configuration file (it lets create a TAP service with
just one text file ; no more need to write 3 classes + 1 servlet)<br>
* 2 new metadata definition methods (1/ an XML file (same
content as VOSI-tables), 2/ import from the database schema
TAP_SCHEMA)<br>
* Result formatting with STIL...and additional formats (e.g.
FITS, HTML) are also provided<br>
* Better STC-S support<br>
* Easier declaration of UDFs<br>
* etc...<br>
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A longer list is available at <a
href="http://cdsportal.u-strasbg.fr/taptuto/news.html">http://cdsportal.u-strasbg.fr/taptuto/news.html</a>
, but considering the amount of modifications, even this list is not
complete ; if you really want to see all of them, I invite you to
take a look to the GitHub project: <a
href="http://github.com/gmantele/taplib">http://github.com/gmantele/taplib</a><br>
<br>
The full documentation of this TAP Library is not yet complete
(only the part about the TAP configuration file is there), but it
will be updated little by little in the next months.<br>
<br>
A Getting Started page and the Javadoc are however available and
will help you creating a TAP service in few steps. <br>
<br>
If you used the previous version, you should know that the new
version is unfortunately not backward compatible ; it was indeed
needed to get a stable and easier-to-use library. However, you will
find a migration help at the following URL to help you performing
the migration as easily as possible: <a
href="http://cdsportal.u-strasbg.fr/taptuto/migration1to2.html">http://cdsportal.u-strasbg.fr/taptuto/migration1to2.html</a><br>
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About the UWS and ADQL Libraries<br>
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In addition of this new TAP Library release, there are also a
new sub-version for the UWS and ADQL libraries: respectively 4.1 and
1.3. They are included in the last release of the TAP Library.<br>
<br>
Both of them are backward compatible with respectively 4.x and
1.x versions. Modifications are mainly bug corrections and addition
of some features.<br>
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/!\ Warning about the UWS Library:<br>
No documentation nor Getting Started are yet available! As for
the TAP Library, it will be completed little by little in the next
months. While waiting you can take a look to the examples provided
on the web-site.<br>
On the contrary, the ADQL Library still have its full and
updated documentation.<br>
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Voilà! I hope these new releases will help those who were
waiting for them for a so long time and I hope it will be helpful
for those who did not know them yet. In all cases, if you have some
questions or need some help concerning these three libraries, I will
be glad to answer you as fast as I can.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<br>
Grégory Mantelet<br>
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Astronomisches Rechen Institut (ARI)<br>
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