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Proposal for FITS as a service

There is now a separate project FITSservlet to provide FITS as a service using either Tomcat or JBoss.

Service API

Pass FITS parameters as file
method: sendFitsExamineResponse()
This method accepts a file's name and path, reads the data file as an inputstream and returns FITS output for client-side examination. The first tests are using Apache ThreadPool.

Tomcat deployment architecture

The Tomcat folder will be added to the base-level folder and include the necessary components (config, build files etc.) to deploy FITS as a service. A new build file will be added (build-fits.xml) to include the extra jars needed in the Tomcat configuration.

Notes: Clients will still require fits.jar to process the output