Introduction

The Astro Runtime is middleware that makes it simple to use Virtual Observatory services. The current implementation supports development in any language with a XML-RPC, Java-RMI or basic HTTP library. It has been successfully used from Python, Perl, C, C++, Java, and Bash.

Principal Directories

docs

This project documentation

docs/apidocs

Tutorial and API Documentation

commandline

Commandline tools

External Dependencies

This project documents the public API to the Astro Runtime. To use this API from your own programs, a running instance of the Astro Runtime is required. This is provided as part of VODesktop

Status

The current Astro Runtime API is a stable release that is used in a number of projects. Any alterations to this public API will be made in a backwards-compatible manner.