Developers guide

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A. Glossary
AAO Anglo Australian Observatory
APT Automated Patrol Telescope
CAN Controller Area Network
CCD Charge Coupled Device - Camera
CVS Concurrent Versions System
Dec -Declination "Latitude +=90"
DRAMA Inter-process Communication mechanism developed by the AAO
GCN Gamma-Ray Co-ordinate Network
GRB Gamma Ray Burst
J2SE Java 2 Standard Edition Platform
JAS Java Automation System
JDK Java Development Kit
JNLP Java Network Launch Protocol
JSDT Java Shared Data Toolkit
JXTA Project Juxtapose – Sun Microsystems Peer to Peer Architecture
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LST Local Sidereal Time
MACRO Motion And Control Ring Optical - Delta Tau
MIB Management Interface Board (APC Masterswitch)
MIB Management Information Base (SNMP)
MJD Modified Julian Date
NMS Network Management Station
NTPD Network Time Protocol
OID Object Identifier
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PMAC Programmable Multi-Axis Controller
PTCS Portable Telescope Control System - Jeremy Bailey AAO
RA Right Ascension = Longitude - measured in hours,minutes,seconds.000
RMI Remote Method Invocation
ROTSE Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
SDK Software Development Kit
SEARFE Students Exploring Australia’s Radio-Frequency Environment
SKA Square Kilometre Array
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
TAI International Atomic Time
THI Telescope Hardware Interface
UDP User Datagram Packet
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
UTC Coordinated Universal Time
Vignetted The viewing are is obscured in some way by an object in the foreground.