Table of contents

1. Query SSAP Services and Open VOSpec directly from URL
2. Open VOSpec as a standalone version (webstart)
3. Plastic functionalities
   
   

Query SSAP Services and Open VOSpec directly from URL

VOSpec can be accessed from a URL using a simple HTML form:
http://esavo.esac.esa.int:80/vospec/formParameter.html

or directly tyiping the URL and providing the necessary parameters:
openVOSpec.jsp?&server1=URLServer1&name1=nameserver&server2=URLServer2&name2=name2&POS=330,-16&SIZE=20

where:

- server1, server2 etc. DO have to appear as such in the URL
- name1, name2 etc. are optional names for the services
- and POS and SIZE are the standard input parameters for SSAP.

(click on the URL, in this particular case ISO has been taken as example).

Open VOSpec as a standalone version (webstart)

VOSpec can be downloaded as a Desktop application from the following URL:

http://esavo.esac.esa.int:80/webstart/VOSpec.jnlp

Open a local file

The following URL has to be called supplying a fileName parameter

http://esavo.esac.esa.int:80/vospec/jsp/openSpectrum.jsp?fileName=/path

VO Interoperability capabilities

VOSpec implements The VO interoperability protocol PLASTIC

Supported Messages:

"ivo://votech.org/votable/load";
"ivo://votech.org/votable/loadFromURL";
"ivo://votech.org/spectrum/loadFromURL";
"ivo://votech.org/spectrum/load";

VOSpec implements The VO interoperability protocol SAMP

Supported Messages:

"spectrum.load.ssa-generic";