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The European
X-Ray Laser Project
EclipseCon, SLAC visit
March 14-20, 2008
by
Kay Kasemir [email protected]
With additions by
Matthias Clausen [email protected]
Kay Kasemir, Matthias Clausen, SNS,DESY
EcliseCon March 2008
XFEL
X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
The European
X-Ray Laser Project
XFEL
X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
Over 1400 participants
Over 150 Tutorials and 1-hour talks.
– Many more 10-min talks and side meetings.
Eclipse is IBM's open-source basis for their Rational Team Concert IDE.
Oracle concentrates on Eclipse
– Reduced interest in JDeveloper?
Sam Ramji: Microsoft Open Source lab will support WPF port of SWT
– Project Supernova: Combines Eclipse and Visual Studio; ‘Microsoft acquires all
open source software rights.’
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X-Ray Laser Project
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X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
OSGi and Eclipse on many levels:
OSGi in near-real-time embedded devices,
Web servers, servlet engines
– Locate device drivers/services
– Allow update w/o reboot.
Siemens: TV set-top boxes
Blackberry: Eclipse as IDE
Nokia: … and Eclipse/eSWT on cellphone
"BIRT" on par with other free and commercial report generators
NASA: Mars rover GUI
Swiss Railroad: Operator interface app similar to what we use in control
room.
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X-Ray Laser Project
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X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
Web App or Standalone?
Big question!
Moving towards web, but not there, yet.
Google Web Toolkit, RAP SWT-for-Web:
– Code as Java app, with tools, type safety, debugger, …
– Run on web; some on server, Java Script on client
– Issues: Plots or other custom graphics
Eclipse 4 plan:
– Should run on web as well as standalone.
– First demo in 2 years(!!)
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"p2": Provisioning/Versioning Update
Installer; no more "unzip, then run …"
NP-Complete search for dependencies
Simpler GUI
– Much less clicking
– Also allows addition of new features by dropping URL, ZIP file,
directory name
To be released with Eclipse 3.4 in July
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X-Ray Laser Project
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X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
ECF Eclipse Communication Framework
• ECF now used for as p2 transport
• Seems to be fully integrated in Eclipse core
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‘buddy list’
File transfer
Interactive editor
Remote actions
• Synchronously
• Asynchronously
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X-Ray Laser Project
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X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
ECF / DCF
DCF DESY Communication framework
– Developed because ECF did not have a visible future (in 2005)
– Supports management functionality
ECF/ DCF compatibility should be studied as part of the
master thesis of Eugen Reiswich
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Tutorials
On:
• OSGi
• eRCP
• RCP
See:
http://css.desy.de/content/e8/e63/e1785/index_eng.html
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X-Ray Laser Project
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X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
CSS @ SLAC
Met with Ernest, Sergei, Paul Chu, Greg White
Ernest
– uses CSS PV Tree for debugging,
– plans to use Data Browser.
High-level apps group
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spent recent years on Matlab due to time constraints
"SEAL" concept for XAL & SLAC logic in Eclipse GUI
developed Eclipse CM Log viewer
working on XAL model server configuration for SLAC
Commonly accepted direction unclear
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X-Ray Laser Project
XFEL
X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
CSS @ DESY
Met with Matthias Clausen (DESY)
On track to use CSS Synoptic Display with XFEL (end of
'08)
Meanwhile, alarm system in production for HERA Cryo Ctrl.
– Beginning to link ~500 SDS displays, auto-converted from dm2k,
as "detail" views from alarms.
Working on SNL Editor and Debugger
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X-Ray Laser Project
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X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
Synoptic Display
Very good editor
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Align, snap, grid, ruler
Configure color etc. of multiple selection
Layer support
Easy connection to CVS
Everything dynamic and configurable
– Link PV to text, color, position
– Add multiple actions to any widget: open display, send value
– Arbitrary tool-tip: PV Name, value(s!), user guidance
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Conclusion by Kay
Need to create demo/test setup of alarm system (a bit more
involved)
Need to try synoptic display (volunteers?).
Determine what's missing, broken, or needs adjustment.
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X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
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