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| Paper: |
Middle Tier Services Accessing the Chandra X-Ray Center Data Archive |
| Volume: |
295, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XII |
| Page: |
249 |
| Authors: |
Patz, A.; Harbo, P.; Moran, J.; van Stone, D.; Zografou, P. |
| Abstract: |
The Chandra Data Archive team at the Chandra X-ray Center has developed middle tier services that are used by both our search and retrieval applications to uniformly access our data repository. Accessible through an HTTP URL interface, these services can be called by our J2EE web application (WebChaser) and our Java Swing application (Chaser), as well as any other HTTP client. Programs can call the services to retrieve observation data such as a single FITS file, a proposal abstract or a detailed report of observation parameters. Having a central interface to the archive, shared by client applications, facilitates code reusability and easier maintenance. These middle tier services have been written in Java and packaged into a single J2EE application called the Search and Retrieval (SR) Services. The package consists of a web application front-end and an Enterprise Java Beans back-end. This paper describes the design and use of the SR Services. |
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