Java Analysis Studio - 2.0 

Release Notes

The most recent version of this document can be found at: http://www-sldnt.slac.stanford.edu/jas/help/2.0/relnotes.htm

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Java Analysis Studio is an application for High Energy Physics data analysis. It allows analysis of data from a wide range of data sources including PAW n-tuples, SQL databases, flat files, hippo files, and (in future releases) ROOT files and Objectivity databases. Java Analysis Studio is a client-server based application, allowing desktop access to data stored anywhere on the internet. The network protocol is optimized to allow rapid access to data even over slow network connections.

Java Analysis Studio provides an easy to use graphical user interface. Users can in addition write analysis modules using the Java Language, using a set of histogramming utilities provided as part of Java Analysis Studio. See the online tutorial for more information on writing analysis modules.

This is a alpha version of the Java Analysis Studio client.. We welcome bug reports as well as your suggestions for new features.

Requirements

This version of Java Analysis Studio is designed to be used with Java JDK 1.1.8 and Swing 1.1.1fcs. Most features also work with JDK 1.2.2.

New Features in 2.0

There are many new features in this version, however the most significant are:

1. Inclusion of 2-d binned plots in addition to scatter plots. 
2. Ability to make interactive projections
3. Ability to display HTML pages with embedded plots (suitable for online monitoring displays).
4. PAW interface now allows for accessing histograms in PAW files in addition to n-tuple data.
5. Code editor is now based on JEdit syntax colorizer component.

See the main JAS web site for more details.

Feedback

Send feedback to jas-feedback@sld-mail.slac.stanford.edu

Known Bugs

• Saving and restoring Jobs is disabled in this version.
• NTuple explorer and interactive cuts are disabled in this version.
• User Manual and Help Documentation is still being worked on. Much of the help tutorial has not been updated since version 1.0.
• Displaying large (>2000 lines) documents in the editor causes incorrect display in some systems.

Please use the bug report form to report other bugs.   Submitted bugs can be viewed in the bug index.

Updated: Wednesday, January 14, 2004.