Re: [Plastic-devs] Occasionally asked questions

[Marco C. <mar...@oa...>]

John Taylor wrote:
> Hi All,
> PLASTIC has been getting a higher profile of late, especially since 
> ADASS, and I've noticed a few misconceptions about what it is and what 
> it does.   The two most common are that
> a) PLASTIC is an AstroGrid product.  I find this one particularly 
> annoying as it doesn't recognise the contributions made by Thomas and 
> Marco in particular, but I'm to blame as I've used PLASTIC to pay my 
> airfare to the last few meetings.  Ironically, I don't even work for 
> AstroGrid. (well, they don't pay me, anyway)
> b) PLASTIC is Java-only.  This is an understandable mix-up, given that 
> the majority of plasticized applications are indeed written in Java, but 
> this reflects the current technology choices of app developers, it's 
> nothing to do with PLASTIC.
> 
> Do you think there's anything to be gained in having a prominent FAQ on 
> Plastic Central that addresses these issues as we encounter them?

Hi John,

I was at the VObs.it workshop last week talking about PLASTIC. People
were very interested in it and I got a lot of questions. One of the most
frequent was something like this

Can PLASTIC startup an application?

Another one was more technical

How are web pages plasticized?


I hope that could help,
cheers,
Marco