Re: [Plastic-devs] Plastic Application Monitor

[John T. <jon...@gm...>]

Looks very very cool.  Look forward to seeing the live 
version....also...this 'ere javascript xml-rpc malarky then....is it 
generalisable to ordinary web pages or do we hit security problems again?


Alasdair Allan wrote:
> All,
>
> John Taylor wrote:
>> You might have noticed that the "view plastic applications" page has 
>> been removed... for plastic developers it was quite handy to be able 
>> to  see info on which apps were connected to the Hub, and what 
>> messages they claimed to support.
>
> Inspired by John's PAM, and because I wanted to figure out how to do 
> XML-RPC from Javascript, "Bored in Airport" productions gives you...
>
> The Plastic Monitor Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X Tiger
> http://www.estar.org.uk/software/plastic_monitor_widget.zip
>
>> The application connects to your Plastic Hub... and reports on what 
>> other applications it finds.  Not exactly a major advance in 
>> scientific computing, but quite handy.
>
> Ditto.
>
> Caveats!
>
> This is a buggy "release early" alpha, and has a bit too much absolute 
> rather than relative positioning in the CSS. Worse yet it also uses 
> the HTTP GET interface of the AG Hub for the initial poll of 
> registered applications. However it does do everything else via 
> asynchronous XML RPC, and I will be ripping the last vestiges of HTTP 
> out of the widget during ADASS if I get time (it's no longer 
> necessary, as I've now figured out how to do XML RPC from Javascript, 
> the point of the exercise!).
>
> Expect updates shortly, I'll drop a page onto the eSTAR website linked 
> from my PLASTIC page at
>
> http://www.estar.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Plastic
>
> in the very near future (next time I'm bored in an airport, which 
> should be within a day or so)...
>
> For the non-blessed amoungst you, that haven't got OSX boxes, see the 
> attached screenshots if you're interested.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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