[AG-TECH] Help with pAG ?

[Tobias Schiebeck]

Hi Phil,

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 16:52 +0100, Stanford P. wrote:
> Tobias, what is the official AGSC position on PAG?

I'm not working for the AGSC so I'm not in the position to comment on
the official AGSC position on PAG. The PAG reference server is still up
and running and updated with new developments coming out of the JISC
VRE3 - OneVRE project which uses PAG as its basis.

The PAG reference server can be found under:
 http://pag.rcs.manchester.ac.uk 
 
> I looked at this on paper a while ago and it would seem to address many
>  of the problems of using AG within an organisation. However, I never
>  got it to work on the AGSC venue server (in terms of seeing any
>  streams - it connected to the venue server with no problems) and I
>  assumed that it was still in a development phase (the Wiki mentioned
>  in the support link below isn't generally accessible, and the blog
>  hasn't been changed since July last year).

The PAG reference server works for me fine with the AGSC venue server.
If this is not the case please submit a Bug report (preferably with the
output of your Java console to the pag-support list:

PAG-SUPPORT at listserv.manchester.ac.uk 

> Is it now released, or actively being developed? There seem to be a lot
>  of good features there, and it would be good to see proper support and
>  documentation for the product. 

There is no direct development on PAG, but as the JISC VRE 3  OneVRE
project is very dependent on PAG, bug fixes will be coming in and
feature requests will be considered if they fit into the OneVRE concept.
 
Best Wishes

Tobias

> Cheers Phil
> 
> National Oceanography Centre IT Group
> 
> 
> On 07/09/2009 16:09, "Tobias Schiebeck" <Tobias.Schiebeck at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi Philippe,
> 
> On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 15:52 +0200, Philippe d'Anfray wrote:
> > Bonjour
> >
> > I'm not sure this is the right list to post (...) but I don't know where to find some help
> >
> > We use AccessGrid to broadcast our seminars on the internet and are very interested in using PAG
> > as it is very easy for anyone to connect to the virtual room through a web browser.
> > http://www.rcs.manchester.ac.uk/research/PAG
> > "Portal Access Grid" has been reported to work with Gridsphere uPortal and Pluto, this
> > last one beeing a priori the easiest to install and use if you   want to run only this
> > specific portlet.
> > http://portals.apache.org/pluto/
> >
> > But there is not so much documentation for all those tools...
> >
> > 1) I got the pluto bundle  (which installs both pluto and tomcat)
> > everything is OK
> > 2) I downloaded and untar pag_1-1.tar in  .../pluto/webapps
> >
> 
> You might need to change the web.xml file in the pag folder to the
> version attached. The file in the package is written for gridsphere.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Tobias
> 
> > Now PAG is listed (and working) in the Tomcat application manager
> > but it is not listed in the Portlet applications list in the Pluto Admin menu
> >
> > I tried various things...(with the WEB_INF, etc...) but could not go further,
> > I probably missed some crucial step .. ?
> >
> > D'avance Merci
> > Bien cordialement,
> >
> > Philippe
> >
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