Introduction

The NewGen MIDAS data acquisition software is built around the use of Web technologies. Hence all the services you previous encountered such as the various register servers; spectrum server etc are now embedded within a Web Server. Tcl is still used as the software core and hence the TclHttpd is used as the Web Server. Whereever possible the MIDAS services such as the register servers make use of Tcl features rather than their own code as in the past.

The Tk package is no longer used to implement the user GUI. All graphical control is provided by a Web Browser interface. Additionally all MIDAS services provide a SOAP interface. Internally SOAP interfaces are used for communication between the software components.

For further reading see which contains links to various technical documents.

In the pages which you can select from the menu you will see various screen dumps taken from a Web Browser. If you click on the screen dump it will be displayed at full resolution. Use your browser back button or any of the topic items to continue.

As you move your mouse over the buttons on the various pages many will produce a short overlay giving more information on the purpose of the button.
Additionally many of the menu lists have a button labelled What is this? which produces a popup window to explain the use of the various menu items.

V Pucknell; STFC; Daresbury Lab   updated 7 December 2011