Hello!
I would like to mention the SBIR funding opportunity for our Eclipse based application CS-Studio:
Letters of Intent (LOI) Due Tuesday, September 08, 2015 5:00pm ET
page 92:
Control System Studio (CS‐Studio) is an Eclipse‐based collection of tools to monitor and operate large scale control systems, such as the ones in the accelerator community. It is a product of the collaboration between Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Spallation Neutron Source, and National Synchrotron Light Source II. One of the primary concerns with CS‐Studio remains its reliance on the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT), used by the Eclipse Rich Client Platform which offers a look and feel similar to the running platform. Unfortunately this approach has also resulted in SWT having a rather limited widget set whose functionality and ease of use are significantly compromised by the need to be supported on all platforms. JavaFX represents a potential replacement for SWT in CS‐Studio. As part of the JDK version 7, it comes with complex widgets and interactions. Grant applications are sought to develop: (1) graphical editor framework to enable data visualization and creation of synoptic displays. (2) runtime environment ‐ an
extendable framework to process and display real time data that supports control system protocols (EPICS v3, v4), web services, and integration patterns. The model would remove the close coupling with specific technologies like Eclipse’s Graphical Editing Framework, while utilizing JavaFX and web‐related technologies.
