Analysis for Physics Experiments

Table of Contents

1. Presenting Anaphe

A short historical introduction

Objectives

Collaboration with the experiments

Current Situation

An overview of the commercial components

Overview of the HEP-specific components

Problem Reporting

2. Anaphe Object Model

A historical digression: Ntuples and PAW

The new Data Model

Implementing the Data Model: explorable collections

3. Setting up the user environment

Environment variables required by Anaphe

Setting up the environment for Bourne shell flavour shells

Setting up the environment for csh shell flavour shells

How to get a fresh Objectivity/DB federated database

Installation troubleshooting

4. Accessing the Objectivity/DB database

What does the user have to know about the database?

Getting access to an Objectivity/DB database

Accessing the Objectivity/DB from inside a C++ program

Manipulating the Objectivity/DB database and its containers in a C++ program

Objectivity/DB administration tools

5. Histogram and tag classes

The HTL package

Converting an HBOOK file into an Objectivity/DB database

The tag classes

6. Glossary