JObserve Introduction

JObserve is an interactive editor for preparing detailed astronomical observing schedules. The implementation is intended to be reasonably generic and allow multiple telescopes to be suppported although at present (12/98) only the Very Large Array (VLA) is supported.

JObserve is written in the Java language. This documentation assumes familiarity with Java and its usage.

This document is intended for programmers maintaining or enhancing JObserve and gives a high level view and a description of the design choices. Detailed class documentation is by the javadoc generated html pages derived from the source code itself. Where appropriate references to the class documentation is given.