http://www.astron.nl/northstar/nswiki/ 2012-02-07T14:00:05+01:00 http://www.astron.nl/northstar/nswiki/ http://www.astron.nl/northstar/nswiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-01-30T11:40:29+01:00 Edsard Boelen http://www.astron.nl/northstar/nswiki/doku.php?id=main&rev=1327920029&do=diff Introduction Welcome on the the Wiki pages for NorthStar. NorthStar is a web-based system for submitting proposals for allocation time for telescopes around the world. The goal of this wiki is to help out users, programmers, system administrators and others who will work on NorthStar. text/html 2012-01-25T16:39:26+01:00 Edsard Boelen http://www.astron.nl/northstar/nswiki/doku.php?id=dev:subversion&rev=1327505966&do=diff history The northstar application has migrated to svn in jan 2009. since may 2010 NorthStar has limited source access from its svn repository. It is possible now to compile the NS sources everywhere. But the UserAdministration and the astron libraries sources are still blocked, those libraries have to be downloaded from here. text/html 2012-01-09T14:39:11+01:00 Edsard Boelen http://www.astron.nl/northstar/nswiki/doku.php?id=dev:estimatecep&rev=1326116351&do=diff Estimating CEP Load in NorthStar The CEP load indication should give the proposers an idea how much processing can be done in the available time. The CEP load is mostly related to the amount of generated raw data by the RTCP. In Northstar, some basic post processing options are available. It will be possible to fiddle with the parameters to indicate which actions will take a lot of resources to complete. text/html 2012-01-05T16:45:01+01:00 Edsard Boelen http://www.astron.nl/northstar/nswiki/doku.php?id=dev:requirements&rev=1325778301&do=diff * using other databases than MySQL: NorthStar uses Hibernate that can be configured to use another database. At this moment the following SQL statements are hardcoded and are not tested for other databases: * The JAAS connector does not use Hibernate. text/html 2011-12-16T14:45:13+01:00 Edsard Boelen http://www.astron.nl/northstar/nswiki/doku.php?id=dev:maven&rev=1324043113&do=diff The ant buildscripts are getting out of date, maven is the follow-up build system for that. Installing maven Maven is a separate program that needs to be installed system wide, java is required when compiling java applications. You should use maven version 3. Just go to the apache maven site and follow the installation instructions there. When the command mvn --version gives no warnings, then you are ready to go. text/html 2011-12-16T14:43:12+01:00 Edsard Boelen http://www.astron.nl/northstar/nswiki/doku.php?id=dev:pom1&rev=1324042992&do=diff pom.xml example 1 This is an example of a standard jar file pom. <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>nl.astron</groupId> <artifactId>northstar-common</artifactId> <version>3.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version> <parent> <groupId>nl.astron.northstar</groupId> <artifactId>NorthSta… text/html 2011-12-16T14:21:32+01:00 Edsard Boelen http://www.astron.nl/northstar/nswiki/doku.php?id=user:manual&rev=1324041692&do=diff About the Northstar proposal web application : FIRST TIME USERS are STRONGLY encouraged to use the “Help” button on each page for instructions and help specific to that page. MORE HELP for the preparation of proposals in NorthStar can be found by scrolling down from the Read-me-First section, or by using the links provided in the “Help Index” section at the top of every page in NorthStar.