Attendees: Zisis P. Maurizio Elliott W. Mark I. Simon T.
David L. Matt B. Joachim K. Ed B. Volker C. Paul E. et al
Richard J. Rafael H.

Agenda:

1. Templatized DANA framework (David)

2. ROOT dictionaries in BMS (David)

3. AOT

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1. David reviewed some of the recent and somewhat significant
changes to the DANA framework. See the web page at:

http://www.jlab.org/~davidl/HallD/Presentations/2005_04_19_DANA_revised

The core of the change is that the data is now accessed using 
a templated C++ method in the DEventLoop object. This also
required that the factories be derived from a templated class.

Along with the template change, the DContainer class was
replaced with STL vector classes. This completes the goal
of adding type safety to DANA. 

There was some discussion as to whether it is better to use
iterators or the square bracket [] for dereferencing. Also,
where we should pass references, pointers and when things should
be const.

2. David reported that he has added a rule to the BMS makefiles
to generate ROOT dictionaries ala rootcint for files containing
the "ClassDef" keyword. This works for hdview, but the
changes for root-izing classes defined in header files which
reside in src/libraries/include have not been checked in yet.


3. Richard announced that a VRVS-based hddm training session
is planned for 11:00am EST Thurs. Anyone with an interest is
invited to attend.