Thanks for providing a fix, (and the other ingenious features of the
new release, mentioned in the other posting from yesterday)!
Can deploy the frink.war file now.

However, on my Tomcat, the resource FrinkServletDispatcher (or so)
cannot be loaded. I am not sitting at that computer right now. So I
can't give you the true error message.

By the way, your fsps on the futureboy.us site give
FrinkEvaluationException: java.lang.NullPointerExceptions.


> Very nice! I have been considering making a version of the model
> solar system that works in 2 dimensions and displays the actual
> distances and locations of the planets for any given date. When people
> build model solar systems, they're usually in a straight line, which
> helps to underestimate true distances in our solar system!
>

Indeed, considering only the inner solar system, aligned along a
linear feature, such as a street in my neighborhod, the planets seem
to be pretty close together, and this is probably slightly misleading.

Today I had another idea while thinking about this little project, as
follows : the script might optionally accept another parameter, of
geographic coordinates (longitude, latitude) which could indicate the
the location of the sun model. The relative positions of the planets
would be calculated as well, and their corresponding geographic
coordinates (either on a straight line or the true current positions
on their scaled-down elliptical model orbits).
Then let the script write the whole thing out as a .kml File to show
in Google Earth. Yesterday I already tried plotting the planetary
distances manually, using Google Earth's line/path tool. Takes too
much time, though. (And manually, anything else other than aligning
them along a straight line is infeasible).
So, maybe I'll create a ajax-y Google maps App that calls my custom
fsp behind the scenes. Fun!

Knut