Client Architectural Design

This document describes the architectural design for the IBEX client. Eventually there should be outlines of the architectural design for each part of the high level design.

Client Design Overview

Client Architecture

Notes on the figure:

CA - Channel Access
JDBC - Java Database Connectivity
JMS - Java Messaging Service

Eclipse RCP

The IBEX client is based on Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform).

CS-Studio

The client makes use of CS-Studio components such as:

Alarm Perspective
Data Browser (called Log Plotter in the IBEX Client)
OPI Views
PV Manager

… and others to be listed later.

PyDev

IBEX uses PyDev to provide the Python scripting window in the IBEX client.