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CSS means Control System Studio. It is a common panel for various control system applications. For users, it serves as a single entry point for starting applications that use control systems as their backend. For developers, it is a plattform to write portable applications for various control systems.
This manual is intended for users of CSS and its applications.
In 2005, Mr. Matthias Clausen from the DESY institute (Hamburg) had the idea to build a new controlling software system to overcome the existing software's shortcomings. Today's applications...
We decided to implement the new CSS software on top of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Eclipse's plugin-architecture makes it relatively easy to extend the system with own features and functions. Due to the fact, that not all developers are firm in developing plugins for eclipse, we will provide extensive documentation and code tenplates to speed up development of new plugins.
If you want to get involved in developing plugins for the CSS you should check out the CSS Homepage.