On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Norman Gray wrote:
> further details); AstroGrid's RC1 scheduled for the end of this
> year.
???
> - AG have developed CEA -- Common Execution Architecture. Wraps
> Java apps (typically, but not exclusively). Handles passing
> data between apps, and
> giving them access to local files corresponding to virtual
> files. This is the integration with workflow. Presumably if
> ADAM were integrated with CEA then the Starlink apps would be
> CEA apps instantly. Guy claimed that AG have been banging on
> about this for a year, and that this is the way that the apps
> would be glued together.
Paul Harrison (who helped design CEA) was more keen on things like
WebStart and using Starlink applications at one time....then he got told
not to think like this!
> or no scope for standalone desktop applications (though Guy
> suggested that Topcat was the sort of thing that would be an
> exception).
Exchange at an Astrogrid Consortium meeting at IOA in April. Nic Walton -
"why has the TopCat plotting beeen taken out of the MySpace viewer". Tony
Linde - "because I did not think it should be there". Nic "well I want it
back". Tony - "you can't have it".....or words to this effect!
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