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Winter 2014
- Minor changes on 1.8.0
- Developpement worked focused on 2.0

Winter 2012
- Still working on 1.7.beta
- The Web interface adopts the WEB profile Samp connector
- A plainty of improvements have been made on the Web interface
- The validation work on the new administration tool is progress, too slowly, but in progress.
- Youn follow the evolution of the Wen inerface here.

November 2011
- Developpement of the new administration interface started :

  • Complete tool for VO publishing
  • New screen oganisation
  • Better connection with script mode

July 2011
- Saada code have been move from SF to Google Code

June 2011
- Release of Saada 1.6.0 : Supprt of an embedded DB (SQLite) + new WEB interface.

November 2010
- ASASS conference : Demonstration of an IFU database (MUSE) working in relation with theQuickViz Aladin plugin by M. Petreman.

May 2010
- Interop meeting : Presentation of the OBSTAP service on XMM data (see PDF).

October 2009
- A Saada demo has been presented at the ADASS conference .

September 2009
- Saada 1.5.1.b released.

April 2009
- Saada 1.5.1 is released incuding the support of MySQL.

November 2008
- Saada 1.5.0 has been shown at ADASS meeting. The demo story board is online.

October 2008
- Saada 1.5.0 released

September 2008
- Saada 1.5.0 is in final testing
- There are no major change from the beta3 release, but a lot of improvments

  • Web interface
  • Administration tool
  • Error handling

April 2008
- Saada1.5.beta3 released

  • New wizard to create SaadaDB
  • New administration tool
  • Graphical tool to map UCDs, Utypes and units.
  • Query language supporting constraints expressed with UCDs or Utypes
  • New graphical panel to build relationships.
  • Data loader configuration more flexible.
  • Faster data loading
  • Better error handling
  • New tutorial

June 2007
- The next release (1.5) features have been drawn from feedback sent by various users. (error processing, reliability, confusing concepts of classes or configuration, admin GUI...). Some of these requests need important code re-arrangement or meta-data re-definition. The concept of configuration will be replace with command line parameters making the dataloader quite more flexible and usable with different skill levels (novice or expert) The developement of Saada1.5 started in Summer 2007.

  • The first alpha release is expected for November 2007 with a new API and a command line based dataloader.
  • The 1.5 beta release is expected for end of 2007.

Winter 2007
- Stress test for the dataloader : the whole dataset of the 2nd XMM catalogue has been ingesteed.

Summer 2007
- Improvement of the relationship indexing.

Spring 2006
- Support of query cnstranits bases on UCDs and Units
- Possibility of setting UCDs by hand

Begining of 2006
- Data loader improvement. Tested on data files compiled for the future 2nd release of the 2XMM catalogue.
- Support of VOtable for spectra and source lists.
- Handling of spectral coordinates. Spectral coordinates are converted in a system global for the SaadaDB.
- SSA support

Summer 2005 Test of VO features :
- Cone Search
- SIA
- UCD Management
- VOQL Web Service

22 June 2005 Release 1.1.2 is available. Spectra support Support of HIERARCH FITS keywords. Possibility of adding user attributes at collection level Possibility of querying tables GUI improvements Sybase support

23 May 2005 Release 1.1.1 is available. Support Sybase

Support user attributes in superclasses. Many bugs were fixed.

15 Januray 2005 The first public release is available. It supports 2D images and list of sources. Relationships can be set up between data. It runs with Solaris/Linux machines. It requires PostgresQL V7.4, JSDK 1.4 and J2SDKEE 1.3 A graphical tool is provided to manage Saada-DBs.

27 October 2004 Saada has been presented (oral) at ADASS XIV conference (presentation).

October 2004 The concept of Saada has been presented (poster) at ADASS XIII conference (presentation).

Developpement schedule

Date
Version
Stored Data
Object Cache
Data Loader
Query
GUI
09/2003
0.1
One simple collection of tables Working shell script By hand minimal
10/2003
0.2
One simple collection of tables Working Automatic from a product description By hand minimal
11/2003
0.3
One collection of various tables Working Automatic from a product description By hand minimal
12/2003
0.4
One collection of various tables Working Automatic from a product description From the GUI Full data content displayed
12/2003
0.5
N collection of various tables Working Automatic from a product description From the GUI Full data content displayed
03/2004
0.5
N collection of various tables Working Automatic from a product description SAADA-QL engine not actually used
06/2004
0.5
N collection of various tables Working Using XML config files SAADA-QL engine not actually used
09/2004
0.6
N collection of various tables and images Working Using XML config files and a simple GUI SAADA-QL engine simple GUI but using J2EE
15/01/2005
1.0
1st public release [download]
22/06/2005
1.1.2
2nd public release [download]
last update 2014-09-03