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. -- Tim Jenness JAC software http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj