Re: [thredds] Calling ToolsUI webstart application


Sweet! That works for me!

Thanks John, that's a recurring annoyance handily eliminated.


Nathan



On Apr 18, 2012, at 5:21 PM, John Caron wrote:

> ok, i finally reproduced that error and seemed to have fixed it. can you try 
> again?
> 
> On 4/15/2012 7:04 PM, Nathan Potter wrote:
>> 
>> John,
>> 
>> I made that change and now I get this error:
>> 
>> The following required field is missing from the launch file:
>> <jnlp><(<application-dec>|<applet-desc>|<installer-desc>|<component-desc>
>> 
>> And the it lists this file under a tab titled "Launch File":
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>> <jnlp spec="1.0+" 
>> codebase="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/v4.2/webstart";>
>>   <information>
>>     <title>NetCDF Tools UI 4.2 extra Jars</title>
>>     <vendor>Unidata</vendor>
>>     <offline-allowed/>
>>   </information>
>> 
>>   <security>
>>     <all-permissions/>
>>   </security>
>> 
>>   <resources>
>>     <jar href="bdb.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="bounce.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="bufr.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="codec.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="ehcache.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="grib.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="httpclient.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="httplogging.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="jdom.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="jgoodies.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="loggingAPI.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="logging.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="opendap.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="protobuf.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="quartz.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="resourcesOptional.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="spring.jar"/>
>>     <jar href="visadNoDods.jar"/>
>>   </resources>
>> 
>> </jnlp>
>> 
>> There is another tab with the "Main Launch File" and the "Exception" tab 
>> says:
>> 
>> MissingFieldException[ The following required field is missing from the 
>> launch 
>> file:<jnlp>(<application-desc>|<applet-desc>|<installer-desc>|<component-desc>)]
>>      at com.sun.javaws.jnl.XMLFormat.parse(XMLFormat.java:167)
>>      at 
>> com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(LaunchDescFactory.java:84)
>>      at 
>> com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(LaunchDescFactory.java:102)
>>      at 
>> com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadExtensionsHelper(LaunchDownload.java:724)
>>      at 
>> com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadExtensions(LaunchDownload.java:654)
>>      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareLaunchFile(Launcher.java:702)
>>      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareAllResources(Launcher.java:592)
>>      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:335)
>>      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:207)
>>      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:124)
>>      at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Main.java:451)
>>      at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Main.java:283)
>>      at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Main.java:116)
>>      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Nathan
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 15, 2012, at 5:14 PM, John Caron wrote:
>> 
>>> apologies:
>>> 
>>> use netCDFtoolsExtraJars.jnlp
>>> 
>>> i will correct docs
>>> 
>>> On 4/15/2012 6:10 PM, Nathan Potter wrote:
>>>> John,
>>>> 
>>>> I stoked that you're changing this, but I think there may some issues. I 
>>>> tried the file as listed here:
>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/tds4.2/reference/Viewers.html#embedding
>>>> And I got:
>>>> 
>>>> com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: 
>>>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/current/webstart/netcdfToolsExtraJars.jnlp
>>>>    at 
>>>> com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(DownloadEngine.java:1416)
>>>>    at 
>>>> com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1569)
>>>>    at 
>>>> com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1547)
>>>>    at 
>>>> com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1654)
>>>>    at 
>>>> com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCachedFile(DownloadEngine.java:661)
>>>>    at 
>>>> com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadExtensionsHelper(LaunchDownload.java:711)
>>>>    at 
>>>> com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadExtensions(LaunchDownload.java:654)
>>>>    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareLaunchFile(Launcher.java:702)
>>>>    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareAllResources(Launcher.java:592)
>>>>    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:335)
>>>>    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:207)
>>>>    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:124)
>>>>    at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Main.java:451)
>>>>    at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Main.java:283)
>>>>    at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Main.java:116)
>>>>    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Here's my JNLP:
>>>> 
>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>>>> <jnlp spec="1.0+" 
>>>> codebase="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/current/webstart";>
>>>> 
>>>>    <information>
>>>>      <title>NetCDF Tools UI</title>
>>>>      <vendor>Unidata</vendor>
>>>>      <homepage href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/"/>
>>>>      <description kind="short">GUI interface to netCDF-Java / Common Data 
>>>> Model</description>
>>>>      <icon href="nc.gif"/>
>>>>      <offline-allowed/>
>>>>    </information>
>>>> 
>>>>    <security>
>>>>      <all-permissions/>
>>>>    </security>
>>>> 
>>>>   <resources>
>>>>    <j2se version="1.6+" max-heap-size="1024m"/>
>>>>    <jar href="netcdfUI.jar"/>
>>>>    <extension name="netcdfUI Extra" href="netcdfToolsExtraJars.jnlp"/>
>>>>    </resources>
>>>> 
>>>>    <application-desc main-class="ucar.nc2.ui.ToolsUI">
>>>>      <argument>{catalogURL}#{datasetID}</argument>
>>>>    </application-desc>
>>>> </jnlp>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Nathan
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Apr 15, 2012, at 4:58 PM, John Caron wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Nathan:
>>>>> 
>>>>> We have changed the way applications like Hyrax can call the ToolsUI 
>>>>> webstart application, in order to insulate from changes in the webstart 
>>>>> jnlp file.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We are using IDV style JNLP files, and using a "current" directory that 
>>>>> we can switch when needed without breaking other applications.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Details are here:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/tds4.2/reference/Viewers.html#embedding
>>>>> 
>>>>> This can be used now, let me know if you see any problems.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for the suggestion!
>>>>> 
>>>>> John.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 3/15/2012 1:04 PM, Nathan Potter wrote:
>>>>>> Greetings
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have some questions regarding the way that IDV and ToolsUI are 
>>>>>> deployed via webstart. I have been caching the prototype .jnlp files in 
>>>>>> my distribution and modifying the arguments as needed on a per request 
>>>>>> basis. This implementation lacks flexibility when the application host 
>>>>>> site upgrades to a newer version (and removes the older one). I see that 
>>>>>> on motherlode the IDV jnlp bundle now references a "current" version of 
>>>>>> the codebase (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/current/webstart) 
>>>>>>  and that the resources (jar files) are loaded based on content held at 
>>>>>> the application site:
>>>>>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/current/webstart/IDV/idvbase.jnlp
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This seem like a much more flexible plan. Is it something that will also 
>>>>>> be done for NetCDF-ToolsUI?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Alternatively, someone pointed me at the way that AutoPlot handles it's 
>>>>>> jnlp generation. They host the application files and a cgi that you pass 
>>>>>> the arguments to as part of the query string, it hands back a JNLP with 
>>>>>> the arguments filled out and pointing to their most recent version  of 
>>>>>> the AutoPlot application.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://autoplot.org/jnlp.cgi?uri=http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/sp_phys/data/fast/acf/1998/fa_k0_acf_19980102_v01.cdf
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any thoughts about this?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Nathan
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> = = =
>>>>>> Nathan Potter                        ndp at opendap.org
>>>>>> OPeNDAP, Inc.                        +1.541.231.3317
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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>>>> Nathan Potter                        ndp at opendap.org
>>>> OPeNDAP, Inc.                        +1.541.231.3317
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> = = =
>> Nathan Potter                        ndp at opendap.org
>> OPeNDAP, Inc.                        +1.541.231.3317
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

= = =
Nathan Potter                        ndp at opendap.org
OPeNDAP, Inc.                        +1.541.231.3317






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