Re: [Plastic-devs] Passing VOEvents via Plastic

[Alasdair A. <aa...@as...>]

Mark Taylor wrote:
> Alasdair Allan wrote:
>> I'd therefore like to introduce/propose
>>
>> void ivo://votech.org/voevent/handleEvent( String xmlMessage )
>
> Sounds fine to me.  Obviously a listener that was going to do   
> something with such a message would need to be VOEvent-aware   
> (contain a VOEvent message parser) well as PLASTIC-aware.

Yes...

> Do you have particular applications in mind for this?  I'm not  
> really up on what's what in VOEvent.

Well obviously I'm someone will implement a VOEvent aware display  
tool (before I have to sit down and do it), e.g.

>> ...so that a Plastic aware display tool could for instance parse  
>> the  message and plot the data products, e.g. a finding chart with  
>> the event RA&Dec marked along with an appropriate error circle  
>> taken from the message

But for my own use I'm going to make the VOEvent broker (see http:// 
www.estar.org.uk/wiki/index.php/VOEvent) Plastic aware and allow it  
to ingest VOEvent messages from publishers/authors via this means and  
inject them into the VOEventNet backbone network. In other words, a  
simple way to publish event messages.

Al.