[ome-devel] OMERO 5 server and client match problem

[Roger Leigh]

On 11/10/2013 11:29, Jianguo Rao wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> The downloads OMERO 5 client(ice3.3) seems not working with the OMERO 5
> server(ice3.4) compiled from current source repository.
>
> The OMERO 5 client(ice3.3) downloaded from
> http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/, it only provides OMERO 5
> client(ice3.3) version and said should work for both version of
> server(ice3.3 &ice3.4)
>
> My test on linux is, the downloaded client(ice3.3), could not talk to my
> compiled OMERO 5 server(ice3.4). But it works on my own complied
> client(ice3.4).
>
> Any one has the same problems? we need to get this resolved, therwise,
> we have to provide OMERO 5 clients(ice3.4) for our users which we try to
> avoid ( We would prefer our users to get the OMERO 5 clients directly
> from OMERO website )

Dear Jianguo,

The ice 3.3 vs ice 3.4 versions should not pose any interoperatibility
problems--these ice versions should be fully compatible with one another.

The most likely problem is that the packaged 5.0.0-beta1 downloads from
downloads.openmicroscopy.org did not match the version of of the OMERO
server in use.  Above, you mention that you complied from the current
source repository.  Do you know which branch and commit were built?
Unless it was the "v.5.0.0-beta1" tag (commit bc984874c), it's quite
likely that the two builds are not completely compatible.  Since the
release of 5.0.0-beta1, a number of changes have been made for the
upcoming -beta2 release, and at this point the API is not yet completely
stable.  With your self-built clients, these are probably matching the
server version exactly.  With the downloaded clients, it's unlikely they
are compatible with the server.

To resolve the problem, I would suggest these possibilities:
- if you require users to use the downloadable OMERO 5 clients, then it
would be safest to also only use the downloaded server, or to build from
the same git version as the 5.0.0-beta1 release.
- if you need to use a more recent git version than the 5.0.0-beta1
release, then you should also build the clients for this release as
well, and /not/ use the downloadable OMERO 5 clients.
Both will result in a working setup, the client and server versions
matching in both cases, but which is most acceptable will depend upon
your priorities.


Regards,
Roger

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