The X- Window User Interface Management System (XUIMS)
at CERN

M. Vanden Eynden
CERN - 1211 Geneva 23 - CH


The X- Window User Interface Management System (XUIMS), at CERN SL Division, is a modular and highly evolutive software development environment allowing the interactive creation of OSF/Motif graphical user interfaces. Fully compliant with the industry standards, it is continuously enriched with the most recent commercial products available on the market. The development of synoptics, the visualization and direct interaction with 2D and 3D scientific data, the display of relational database data, and the direct access to LEP and SPS equipment are addressed by this new software development environment. The guarantee of consistency across the applications and the encapsulation of complex functionalities in re- usable and user friendly components has also been implemented through the development of home made widgets and templates.

With a C coding effort reduced to a minimum, the production of the new generation of graphical user interfaces required to control the largest accelerators at CERN (SPS and LEP) and the CERN wide technical services has successfully started.