Eclipse 2006 Workshop, Meeting Timetable  
 
Time Item  
Friday Morning, March 24th, 2006 Redwood Room A&B, Building 48, SLAC
3/24/06 8:45 AM Tea, coffee, bagels and pastries
9:00 AM Welcome, Ron Chestnut (SLAC) and Matthias Clausen (DESY)
9:05 AM Introductions and objectives
9:15 AM Control System Studio (CSS) Status Report, Matthias Clausen, DESY  
9:45 AM The EPICS IDE and Probe on Steroids, Ken Evans, ANL  
10:15 AM Use of RCP for Instrument Control, Includes issues of collaboration and other scientific RCP application's besides GumTree, Tony Lam, ANSTO  
10:45 AM Interval  
11:00 AM OptSuite, Alex Bieber, Department of Microsystems Engineering, University of Freiburg  
11:30 AM PlotML, the Java Analysis Studio (JAS), and WIRED, Tony Johnson and team, SLAC  
12:10 PM Scheduled discussion time. Scientific plots and images in Java and Eclipse.  
12:40 PM Lunch  
   
Friday Afternoon, March 24th 2006
1:40 PM XAL, Paul Chu, SNS
2:20 PM "Relocate", a Persistence Framework for Accelerator Beamlines, Sergei Chevtsov, SLAC  
2:50 PM Integrated Remote Display and Application Launching from Eclipse, Greg White, SLAC  
3:10 PM Interval  
3:30 PM Jcmlog, an Event Logging Browser port of cmlog browser to SWT/Jface, Diane Fairley, SLAC  
3:50 PM Java/C++ Exceptions and Message Logging, Ron MacKenzie, SLAC  
4:20 PM Scheduled Discussion Time: Software Delivery, Distribution and Collaboration.  
4:50 PM Session Ends
TALKING POINTS FOR DISCUSSION TIME
12:10 PM Scheduled discussion time. Scientific plots and images in Java and Eclipse.  
What are the options for 2d and 3d graphics in the Eclipse environment?
What are the options for scientific plots (scatterplots, histograms etc). Are there any with fitting?
Can one incorporate Matlab or Gnuplot plotting into an Eclipse application?
4:20 PM Scheduled Discussion Time: Software Delivery, Distribution and Collaboration.  
What is the appropriate RCP GUI breakdown for a many-application user interface; one perspective per application, or one view per application, or separate windows per application?
How do you deliver applications?  java webstart? Eclipse Update-site? 
How do you share applications?
HOW DO SWING BASED APPS FIT INTO THE PICTURE?