Ancient V4 Design

This page links to various documents for discussion by the EPICS core developers.

Code to implement this stuff doesn't exist yet, and the designs may change!

Note to authors: please use 'V4' at the start of page names for Version 4 documentation, as this makes it clear which wiki pages refer to the new designs just from the page name.

Core and Database

• V4 Standard Types
• V4 Standard Properties and Events - Andrew Johnson

• V4 Database Definition - Marty Kraimer, Andrew Johnson
  • V4 DBD Statement Syntax
  • V4 DBD dbCommon and iocRecord
  • V4 DBD Examples
  • V4 DBD Record Instance Syntax

• V4 DBD Generated Code - Marty Kraimer
• V4 Database Access - Marty Kraimer
• V4 epicsClass classes for data that can be introspected - Marty Kraimer
  • V4 Design: epicsTypes - Marty Kraimer
• V4 dbdClass classes for Database Definition - Marty Kraimer
  • V4 Design: dbdClass - Marty Kraimer
  • V4 Design: dbdClass Examples - Marty Kraimer
  • V4 Design: Database Access Semantics - Marty Kraimer

• V4 User-defined fields - Kay Kasemir
• V4 Server Side Plugins - Ralph Lange, Benjamin Franksen

Network Communications

• V4 Name Server - Doug Murray, Kay Kasemir
• V4 CA Interfaces - Jeff Hill
• V4 CA Client User Interface - Doug Murray, Kay Kasemir

Other Services

• V4 Replacement for drvTS - Timo Korhonen