The AstroGrid Team is pleased to announce the 2006.3.rc3 release of
Workbench
and Astro Runtime.
http://www.astrogrid.org/desktop
Changes in this version include:
New Features:
o Astroscope, Myspace, Lookout now send Spectra Plastic Messages. o Within Query Builder, it is now possible to sort columns within metadata
display. Clicking on column header sorts alphabetically, either ascending
or descending. Issue: 1790.
o Added community list combo box to login dialogue Issue: 1788.
o Added votable manipulator (STIL) to AR interface Issue: 1585.
o Reduced executable size, by stripping unused classes.
o Added a generic disk-caching component. Use it to cache registry
resource
objects and documents for a day or so. o Implemented standard IVOA registry interface. Issue: 1413.
Fixed bugs:
o Added caching of application info to improve responsiveness of workflow
editor and application launcher. Issue: 1814. o Astroscope now updates display when plastic apps register Issue: 1777. o Astroscope handles non-standard siap responses Issue: 1780. o Sorting of tables before metadata display. Correction of bug in metadata
display preventing display when archive separately chosen. Correction of
displaying of brackets in Query Builder Issue: 1768. o Fixed parameterized workflow dialogue, and got workflows running again.
Issue: 1505.
o Optimized registry interface - uses a streaming parser, improved data
model. Marked old implementation as deprecated. Issue: 1574. o can now delete from list of workfows Issue: 1710. o Reorganised front UI tabs Corrected list of parameterised workflows Issue:
1760,1754.
o Fixed helioscope to have a save button that was mising Changed 'To
To Top'
to 'Go To Top' and set shortcut key to 'G' for Astro and helioscope. Issue:
1719.
o Fixed 'enter' or 'return' to work on Registry panel for workflow see
bugzilla ticket 1366 Issue: 1366.
o Rephrased pop-up text on plastic registration. Issue: 1734.
o Removed "list" plastic applications button from all variants except
plastic
hub-only AR. Issue: 1757.
o Assorted other fixes: hub now self registers properly and responds to
messages such as getName.
o XML-RPC return type conversion would fail in certain situations.
XML-RPC
plastic clients couldn't use getRegisteredIds for example. Issue:
1762.
o Improved concurrency behaviour of Plastic hub, added more tests.
Made hub
more robust to duff clients. Hub now only unregisters xmlrpc clients when
there's an IOException, not if the client faults.
Changes:
o Improved formatting of registry entries o Reworked registry google / application launcher / astroscope components to
use new registry interface. Deleted applications and services aren't displayed anymore.
Removed features:
o Reverted PW-launcher to load list of workflows from wiki page.
Enjoy!
-The AstroGrid Team
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http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Main/NoelWinstanley
Senior Java Developer, AstroGrid Project
Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester
Received on 2006-09-15Z18:28:46