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From: Noel W. <Noe...@ma...> - 2006-04-24 18:20:33
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On 24 Apr 2006, at 15:54, Mark Taylor wrote: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Noel Winstanley wrote: > >> Hi, >> The first beta release of the Astro Runtime family of software >> products is available from >> http://software.astrogrid.org/beta/ar >> >> There are 4 variants of the Astro Runtime available: >> * PLASTIC Hub - just for client-side UI tool interop. >> * Astro Server Runtime - for non-UI unattended operation >> * Astro Client Runtime - for desktop operation >> * Workbench - suite of applications built upon the Astro Runtime >> (Astroscope, Application Launcher, Workflow editor) >> >> Each variant is available as >> * a webstart application, to click and run >> * single executable jar, to download, install and run >> * zip of libraries, for integration with other projects. > > Hi Noel, > > looks good. Couple of issues with the standalone hub, run from > the jar file (java -jar plastic-hub-2.2-beta-1.jar). > > - It doesn't appear to send a HubStopping message on shutdown. > yep - that's a problem that john is tackling. It'll be fixed before there's a 'stable' release. > - Most things I try to do from the GUI just pop a message in a > JTextPane: "Cannot control browser Please go to ...". No doubt > this is a consequence of the Luddite way I [refuse to] set up > my desktop, so you may choose not to regard this as a bug. > most of the things you are doing must be launching links to webpages. Java webstart provides extra apis to do this - if the AR isn't running under webstart, it falls back to just telling the user where to go (so to speak). It's a pity that standard java doesn't provide a browser-control class - there's a range of 3rd-party libraries (either java code that does os-detection, or native code like JDIC) that try to achieve this, but few are very good (last time I looked). Maybe I should provide something a little more ambitious for the fallback position - I'll take a look at what's available. > - Temporary files written to /tmp when (e.g.) doing a PLASTIC List > (List details of all registered applications) write a temporary > file to /tmp which is never tidied up (should presumably use > File.deleteOnExit or Runtime.addShutdownHook). > aha - one for john, methinks. he wrote the hub - I've just repackaged it. > - PlasticHubListener.getMessageRegisteredIds() does not include in > the returned list applications which are registered as accept-all > (i.e. regustered with an empty list of messages). I'd argue that > it should do. > likewise. meanwhile, I've now got time to look at the myspace bug that's been irritating both of us for a while - but you were right to put a work- around into topcat in the meantime. cheers noel. > Mark > > -- > Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol > University, UK > m.b...@br... +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/ > ~mbt/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your > job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Plastic-devs mailing list > Pla...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plastic-devs > |
