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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Peter W. Draper wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Mark Taylor wrote:
>
> the JSky catalogue access stuff is just like that in GAIA/Skycat, i.e.
> what they now seem to call the REST web service style. So you just
> construct a query as part of a URL send it to one of the skycat-aware
> servers and get something back (TST or FITS image usually).
>
> In principle, if you were to do this, you should be able to reuse the
> catalogue querying components in JSky to do the real work (in principle
> since I haven't looked at these to see how reusable they are) and just
> deal with the TST you get back.

and of course, JSky will include a TST parser.

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Tim Jenness
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