EPICS Collaboration Meeting 2006
Infrastructure and Software Development

Matthias Clausen, DESY:
"Summary of CSS / Eclipse SIG Workshop"

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• Eclipse
  • OUT OF THE BOX
• CSS
  • CSS core prototype in fall 2006
  • CSS application end of 2006
  • DATA Access Layer ⇔ Connection to EPICS
  • Management: Authentication/Authorization
  • "independent of EPICS"
    • can also be used on top of other control systems
  • Workshop August at DESY for core
• Alarm Handler
  • JMS (M.Clausen)
  • alh replaced by an IOC push to the message queue

Kenneth Evans, Argonne:
"An EPICS IDE using Eclipse"

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• ⇒ EPICS IDE Plugin
  • easy way to get in
• You can have an IOC up an running in just a few minutes!
• web: http://aps.anl.gov/epics/eclipse/plugins/epicsIde/epicsIde.html !!!
• VDCT not yet possible

Emma Shepherd, Diamond:
"The Future of VDCT"

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• visualdct.cosylab.com

Tom Pelaia, ORNL:
"EPICS with Cocoa"

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• Cocoa: Apple Computer's native object-oriented application programming environment for the Mac OS X operating system
• EDM on the Mac
• Plugins for SAFARI Browser of Mac
  • ⇒ general Plug/-ins for other Browsers could provide full GUI-"Beauty" w/o X-Motif !!

Ron MacKenzie, SLAC:
"Application error reporting with 'Err'"

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• "Java/C++ exceptions an Message Logging"
• CORBA is used !!
  • CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture
  • Wikipedia: en, de

Andrei Liyu, ORNL:
"IOC - Relational DB Connectivity Bridge"

Margaret Votava, FNAL:
"Distributed Development Environment for ILCTA"

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• EPICS as control system for DAQ? (Nova?)

Terri Lahey, SLAC:
"LCLS network and support planning"

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• EPICS also to control
  • networks ?
  • switches ?

Tony Vento, National Instruments:
"LabVIEW to EPICS interface tools"

• http://www.sns.gov
• Lookout:
  • Communication between different Targets ("shared variables) in LV8, I/O-Server in about ½ year
  • LV is running on vxWorks (to be announced in autumn)