The Application of CORBA in a Generic Data Acquisition Program
SRCG Team · · · Geoff Mant Paul Stephenson Mike Miller Steve Kinder Karen Ackroyd N Vasanthi
Motivation · Construction of Data Acquisition program for a combined technique station. · Integration of Unix, PC and VME environments. · Provide software with a common ‘Look and Feel’ across stations to make set up and data collection easy. Integrating all detectors and ancillary equipment into one interface. · Create “plug and play” components with well defined interfaces using object-oriented programming principles to provide flexibility to cope with future changes. · Provide an interpreter for complicated and rapidly changing experiment protocols
Schematic GUI Interpreter Beam-line Components EPICS Devices
Design Decisions • UML (Unified Modelling Language) for analysis and design. • C++ for OS-9 programming. • Java for beam-line components and graphical user interface (easier to program, large number of built in class libraries, garbage collection, threads, portability). • CORBA for middleware (Orbacus) • Jython as an interpreter • Allow multiple client access.
Component Overview ABA/App GUI OE Object Existing Code ADC Mc. Lennan: Motor SRS 122: Motor
Why CORBA • Industry standard supported by the OMG • Provide connectivity between VME, PC and Unix systems • Orbacus CORBA was chosen for its C++ and Java flavours and its was FREE or so we thought! • Robust communication, hiding socket programming and retaining a strongly typed interface. i. e. multiple idl files specifying wide interfaces.
Features • • Factories for object creation Name Server for location of objects Event Server for asynchronous communication XML for configuration
Overall Design Client Naming Service Event Service OE Server Object Server
Application framework Client Naming Service Table Slit Object. Server
Adapter Pattern - Server side Adapter pattern to provide some independence from the middle-ware and also to allow the components to interact as a monolithic system should the need arise.
Adapter Pattern - Client side The client side adapter contains code to allow the reconnection to the server if this has died and been restarted.
Creation of Objects
Drawbacks • • Cost of Orbacus(Iona) CORBA licence Now frozen at release 3. 1. 3 Old OMG CORBA specification Can’t pass Java objects, although if you know its only Java to Java serialization is one option. • We have used inheritance based CORBA which is now problematic on the server side. Tie mechansim would be better but not ideal. • numerous idl interfaces (pro or con? ) • Java multiple inheritance in our design
Align Beam-line • • Aligns beamline for data collection. OEMove provides a standard tool to allow the control and set up of Optical Elements. Easily configurable for different stations. One tool meets needs of many projects.
Xafs • Standard absorption edge scan interface. • Will support multiple modes, Angle, KSpace and Fast. • GUI completely detached from control. • Scans done via JCLAM (scripting language - python extension).
PX Data Collection • Data collection making good progress, tested with Q 4 and MAR 180 & MAR 345 detectors. • Same GUI independent of detector in use. • Detector specific bits provided by Detector implementation.
NCD Configuration • Configuration of the timer frame generator for multiple frames and profiles • Detector set-up with memory usage feedback. • Data output details
Interpreter • Load, save and execute scripts
Future • • • Another brand of CORBA Utilise Java offering RMI over IIOP Get rid of OS-9 in favour of Linux SOAP
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