[AG-DEV] Web client for AG

[Luis Galárraga]

Thomas,

Thanks a lot for your help. I feel there is light at the end of the
tunnel!!! However, as you can imagine, we have important time constraints. A
web client is one of our possibilities (my favorite one) and looks a hard
matter. One important point for us, is portability of the client, that is
why we considered the web approach. Other options are a lightweight client
application written in Python, an applet or a Java Web Start application .
To start, we would just implement audio and video transmission, then we
could extend the application to support all AG functionalities. I would like
to know your opinion about these options.

And finally, would you recommend us to use AGTk 3.0? How feasible is it
considering the available resources until now??. Thanks again!!!

Regards,
Luis Galárraga

2008/2/27, Thomas D. Uram <turam at mcs.anl.gov>:
>
> Hi Luis:
>
> I'm the tech lead at Argonne for the Access Grid project.  I'm very
> interested in the work you are proposing, and have some comments:
>
> - The API documentation has not, as you've noticed, been updated for
> AG3.  This needs to be done.  I could generate documentation of the web
> services interfaces fairly easily, which is necessary since there have
> been some changes from AG2.
>
> - There are a couple ways to approach a web-based client.  One is to
> build an "adapter" between the VenueServer and the web browser; this
> adapter would accept HTTP from the user, make SOAP calls to the AG
> VenueServer, and return HTTP responses to the user.  I wrote a basic
> example of this here:  http://www.accessgrid.org/node/971 .  Another,
> possibly better solution, would be to make the SOAP calls at the client
> using a JavaScript SOAP implementation.  Both of these leave open the
> question of how to handle the audio and video.
>
> It's a priority for us to update the documentation, but I can't promise
> when that will be done.  If we can help answer questions in the
> meantime, please don't hesitate to ask either here on the ag-dev list,
> or by emailing me directly.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Uram
>
>
>
> On 2/26/08 3:06 PM, Luis Galárraga wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I am really interested in Access Grid Development as I take part in a
> > small community who is developing a software for videoconferencing
> > based on AGTk. At the moment, we are in the design phase and some of
> > us are analyzing the possibility of writing a web client for Venues.
> > Of course, there are certain constraints: we only need to use AG in
> > the easiest configuration, personal node. We would like to know your
> > opinions about this decision. How difficult and feasible is that?. (We
> > have discuss some technical facts and consequences). It is obvious
> > that the advantages of doing that are numerous.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your contributions to this topic.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Luis Galárraga
>
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