Bibcode
Macías, R.; Filgueira, J. M.
Bibliographical reference
Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II. Edited by Bridger, Alan; Radziwill, Nicole M. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7019, pp. 70190H-70190H-12 (2008).
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2008
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Description
The Inspector is the graphical user interface of the GTC Control System.
It is implemented in Java and gives a unified view of the whole system
by representing it as hierarchical browser of distributed objects. The
ability to resolve at runtime the domain objects running distributed on
the real time systems and use that domain information to dynamically
generate different views of the system. Using the exact same set of
tools and edition capabilities, it is as simple to create an engineering
view of the GCS as it is to create a science view. Such flexibility and
simplicity, have made the Inspector be, not only the interface of the
final system, but also one of the most important tools used by the
engineers from very early in the development process to test the
functionality of their respective components. Persistency of dynamically
created views, commands execution flows, visualization of system alarms
and logs, are also important aspects of the Inspector which will be
explained in this paper.