Installation of JAS 3 and WIRED 4

Users are encouraged to install JAS 3 and WIRED 4 on their local machines. This has the advantage that the local CPU and memory is used for running these programs and no usage is made of remote XWindows in the case of Unix.

Before you can install WIRED 4 you need to have JAS 3 installed. You need at least version 0.8.1 of JAS 3. If JAS 3 is not yet installed, do so now, by following the instructions from the JAS 3 website at:

http://jas.freehep.org/jas3/index.html.

To verify the version number of JAS 3 select Help->About from the menu.

To run WIRED 4 you need at least the following three plugin modules:

  1. WIRED 4
  2. WIRED 4 Base Library
  3. HepRep

Launch JAS 3 and select View->Plugin Manager from the menu. On the Installed tab you may find WIRED 4 listed under either system or user. If this is the case, WIRED 4 is already installed, but you still may want to upgrade to the latest version.

If you do not find WIRED 4 here, go to the Available tab (you need to be connected to the internet at this time) and look under hep/visualization. You should find WIRED 4 here. You need to install both the WIRED 4 Base Library and WIRED 4, by selecting the first one with a click and the second one with a shift-click. Then select either to install them in the User extensions directory or in the System extensions directory, it does not matter, but you may not have write permission in the System area. Once selected, click Install selected plugins, which will download the plugins and install them. Progress will be shown. You may check that WIRED 4 is installed, as it should appear now under the Installed tab.

To view HepRep data you also need to install the HepRep plugin. You need at least version 1.3 of this plugin. Again you can check if the HepRep plugin is installed by looking under the Installed tab. If not, it should be under the Available tab under hep/visualization.

Any plugin can be updated if newer versions are available, and plugins can also be removed.

To get rid of the plugin manager, push the Close button.

The following plugin modules are part of or related to WIRED 4:

  • WIRED 4: The main WIRED Event Display plugin.
  • WIRED 4 Base Library: The base library for WIRED 4, which is also used by other graphics visualization plugins such as the FITS plugin.
  • HepRep: The HepRep2 XML file reader, the HepRep1 to HepRep2 converter and the HepRep1 and HepRep2 interface standards.
  • WIRED CORBA HepRep Client Plugin: The CORBA client which connects to HepEventServers[4] to retrieve HepRep1 or HepRep2 data using CORBA. This client can also handle JProcMan[5] lookups. This plugin is useful for GLAST and BaBar.
  • WIRED 3 Graphics Format: A converter plugin from the WIRED3 graphics format to HepRep2. This plugin is only useful for BaBar, where the geometry description in in WIRED3 Graphics Format. The geometry of BaBar is included in this plugin, so the plugin is rather large.