Minutes of joint DAL 5 session, 18-May-2006, Victoria Chair: Doug Tody Minutes: Markus Dolensky slides are attached to http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpMay2006DAL Agenda (session#.item) Current and Future Implementations 5.1 John Taylor (for Noel Winstanley) - Astro Runtime 5.2 Francois Bonnarel - Footprints 5.3 Doug Tody - VO-client/dalclient 5.4 Kelly McCusker - Spectrum data model Java implementation 5.5 John Taylor - SIAP client experiences in Astrogrid Notes Audience: ~40 persons All demos were very well presented leading to only a few technical questions. 5.1 5.2 Usage of STC for FoV description is considered incorrect by author of STC doc. Discussion taken off-line. 5.3 Q: How about C# for DAL clients? A: Usage of specific system on server side is generally not an issue. It is a problem if it imposes requirements on client. Not yet decided which technology (like java RMI, xml-rpc etc.) to use in order to connect to DAL client 5.4 Q: Does it use DAL client as shown in 5.4? A: No. It's a library not a service. Q: Difference btw SED and Spectrum? A: Just semantics. 5.5 Q: Astroscope architecture? A: Uses ACR to talk to services.