STAR Offline Framework
STAR’s legacy Fortran developed in a migration-friendly Framework – StAF – enforcing IDL-based data structures and component interfaces
- But proceeding with StAF to a fully OO Framework / analysis environment required major in-house development and support
- Instead … leverage a very capable tool from the community
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11/98 adopted new Framework built over ROOT
- Origins in the ROOT-based ATLFAST
- Modular components ‘Makers’ instantiated in a processing chain progressively build (and ‘own’) event components
- Supports legacy Fortran and IDL based data structures developed in previous StAF framework without change (automated wrapping)
- Deployed in offline production and analysis since RHIC’s second ‘Mock Data Challenge’, 2-3/99
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cf. Valery’s talk for details