JSAMP
JSAMP is a Java toolkit for use with the
Simple Applications Messaging Protocol.
It provides the following components:
- A SAMP hub implementation, suitable for standalone or embedded use
- A set of classes which can be used to implement SAMP capabilities in
client applications
- A hub test and benchmarking suite, which can test correctness and
performance of third-party hub implementations
- Utilities which can be used by client and hub developers, or SAMP users,
to analyse or debug SAMP sessions
- Graphical components built on top of the basic functionality suitable
for use with the above
- A bridge component, which can allow clients on different hubs to
talk to each other
For a given purpose, some or all of these components may be used at one time.
The toolkit's design aims are, in rough order of priority:
- Correctness according to the SAMP standard
- Robustness
- Ease of use for client application authors
- Ease of deployment within third-party applications (few dependencies)
- Flexibility, including the possibility to use with non-Standard
SAMP Profiles
- Good documentation
- Small size (this one's gone by the board a bit)
The current version targets the SAMP
1.2 Working Draft document (19 July 2010);
this is very close to the
1.11 Recommendation (21 April 2009),
but with an enhancement concerning Standard Profile hub discovery.
JSAMP is currently developed by
Mark Taylor
(m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk),
working in the
Astrophysics Group
at
Bristol University.
Please contact me with queries, bug reports, suggestions etc.
