EPICS Library

This provides the ChannelAccess (CA) client library for accessing Process Variables on EPICS IOCs via the network.

Preferences

There are two main items to configure:

Note that changes require a restart of the application, they do not take effect at runtime!

Default Settings

While each user can specify custom settings for each workspace, a site might have some default choices. Your CSS administrator can refer to the file "preferences.ini" inside the org.csstudio.platform.libs.epics plugin and provide a suitable "plugin_customization.ini" file for your site-specific version of CSS.

Installation

When using the 'pure java' version, aka. CAJ, no additional steps should be required.

To use the JNI version, you need the operating system specific binaries for JNI. Refer to the README.txt in the org.csstudio.platform.libs.epics plugin for details on the currently included binaries.