Dublin 2014
Dublin Meeting, Trinity College Dublin, March 2014
Presentations
ICAT collaboration and its governance – Brian Matthews
Site reports
DLS – Alun Ashton (presented by Tom Griffin)
Presentations
python-icat – a library for writing ICAT clients in Python – Rolf Krahl
A domain specific ICAT GUI – Tom Griffin
Experience of the ICAT API and Documentation – Jay Rainey
J2EE containers – Steve Fisher
Status and Roadmap
ICAT Core, IDS and IJP – Steve Fisher
Observations
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A good and constructive meeting
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Tom's domain specific GUI looks very promising
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Jay liked the speed and simplicity of ICAT4.3 compared to ICAT 3 but requested some clarifications to the documentation
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Very few people have actually used the ICAT API.
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Rolf's suggestion to add an InvestigationGroup was interesting and will de discussed further on the icatgroup list before deciding whether or not to accept it.
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There was not much enthusiasm for trying other J2EE containers at the moment.
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The Status and Roadmap presentations were accepted but:
- There was no interest in changing the getAPIVersion() to have a more sensible name.
- The config operation of the setup scripts should be preserved though should not be required.
- There was concern that the Lucene index was a single point of failure in a multi-ICAT setup – it was also pointed out that it could require a lot of memory.
- The federation part of TopCAT was considered to be essential by a significant number of people – so multi-ICAT searches will be kept.
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It was suggested that an existing abstraction of a job system should be used when generalising the IJP. In factthe only one I found was BLAH of which I was aware but had forgotten.
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Many thanks to John Walsh and TCD for the organisation.