XAL is the Open Source development environment used for creating accelerator Physics applications, scripts and services for the spallation Neutron Source.

Features

1. Open Source collaboration with dozens of developers across several sites
   

2. SNS, SLAC, BNL, JPARC and others
   

3. Pure Java for cross platform development and deployment
   

4. Application Framework for rapidly developing modern applications
   

5. Toolbox of Java packages
   

6. Collection of applications (over four dozen) and services
   

7. EPICS Channel Access support
   

8. Ant based build system independent of IDE
   

NEWS and Documentation

1. News Feed
   

2. Introduction
   

3. Quick Start Guide
   

4. Core API Javadoc
   

5. Core API Documentation Set (Xcode Format)
   

Lecture series

1. Java Primer
   

2. XAL Tour
   

3. Building XAL Applications - Tutorial Code
   

External Resources

1. XAL Open Source Project
   

2. XAL 2 Project
   

3. XAL Course Material - U.S. Particle Accelerator School 2008
   

4. EPICS
   

5. JCA/JNI
   

6. JCA/CAJ