GDA Developer guide

Contents:

• 1. Installation
  • 1.1. Install Java
  • 1.2. Install Eclipse
  • 1.3. Tools that are _not_ required
  • 1.4. Download and configure GDA
  • 1.5. Building GDA
  • 1.6. Building the standard distribution
  • 1.7. Building your own extensions
  • 1.8. Starting GDA
  • 1.9. Stopping GDA
• 2. Introduction to the GDA
  • 2.1. Example usage of the main Jython GDA commands
  • 2.2. Example devices
  • 2.3. Using the plotting functions in GDA
• 3. Writing new Device classes in Jython and Java
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. The Scannable interface and ScannableBase classes
  • 3.3. Description of the Scannable properties and relations between them
  • 3.4. Add a new device to the server
  • 3.5. Examples of other Scannable classes and tests in GDA
  • 3.6. Demonstrate use of Scannable in terminal
• 4. Client GUI development
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Writing the Swing GUI component
  • 4.3. Adding the new component to the GDA client
  • 4.4. CORBAising the object
• 5. CORBA in the gda
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Writing the Java code
  • 5.3. Creating CORBA-specific files
  • 5.4. How the remote call works
  • 5.5. Reference
• 6. GDA Demo
  • 6.1. Basic commands
  • 6.2. Other scannables
  • 6.3. Default detectors
  • 6.4. Beam focusing

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
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