
                         CASSANDRA PLUGIN
              VTK/Java based 3D Scientific Data Viewer
                  (c) Artenum, Paris, France, 2005
                  http://www.artenum.com/cassandra
                 
                           (July 2006)

Initial authors: 
    - Sebastien Jourdain (Artenum), contact: sebastien.Jourdain@artenum.com
    - Julien Forest (Artenum), contact: j.forest@artenum.com
    - Artenum SARL, Paris, France. 

1) Plugin description

   This project is a Cassandra plugin that can be used to improve 
   the Cassandra framework where Cassandra is a modular and advanced 
   3D scientific data viewer based on the Visualisation Tool Kit, 
   VTK. 

   This plugin aims to provide a set of default features for the Cassandra
   framework. This features are basicaly related to load and save data.
   
2) Build

   To build Cassandra plugin to your computer you will have to download the 
   thirdpart libraries and update a configuration file where you will have 
   to specify the path of those library.

   See the "THIRDPART.txt" for more details. (Could be in the provided thirdpart 
   directory)

   The configuration file to update is "config.properties" that you must 
   create from the "config.sample" file which is the base of the properties
   needed for the compilation and the packaging process.

   Then use ANT in order to generate the engine components.

   => Ant task available:
       - clean   : remove all builded documents. (class, jar, javadoc)
       - jar     : generate the jar file for the Cassandra plugin and place it 
                   in the specified plugin directory of the Cassandra framework.
       - javadoc : generate the javadoc of the source code and place in 
                   the Doc/API directory

3) Contact

    E-mail: jourdain@artenum.com

    Mail: Artenum SARL
          101-103, Bd Mac Donald
          75019 PARIS, FRANCE

    Phone: +33(0)1 44 89 45 15
    Fax:   +33(0)1 44 89 45 17



