Over the years, data acquisition software development has become somewhat fragmented due to effort and funding being organised around scientific techniques. This has led to a wide variety of software strategies being adopted including FORTRAN, C, VB, C++ etc.

The continuing downward pressure on resources has seen several scientific areas loose their dedicated software effort and increasing problems maintaining a diverse portfolio of legacy software.

The advent of station MPW6.2 which supports multiple techniques (NCD, EXAFS, XRD) gave the opportunity to produce a combined data acquisition code based on object-oriented techniques and Java which formed the basis of the GDA concept.

For further information, please contact Greg Diakun