Trials and tribulations of implementing intranet technology: the Cassini Information Access System

Author

Abraham, Marc D. ; Rivera, Gerardo ; Ames, Charles K.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

13

Issue

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

24

Abstract

The Cassini Information Access System (IAS) was built to provide Cassini Integration and Test engineers with ready access to current technical and logistical project information. World Wide Web (www) technology was used to provide a consistent user interface to pre-existing interactive systems as well as new repositories and interactive services developed specifically for Cassini. A Web “gateway” was developed for each pre-existing data service. Each service had its unique requirements including read-only and read-and-write access to SQL databases. Other requirements called for the development of many background processes to handle the access of data produced by proprietary databases and non-database data repositories. Through the use of the www, anonymous ftp, Novell services, and unique data conversion programs, we were able to put the system into limited operation by August 1995 and full operation by March 1996

Keywords

Internet; aerospace computing; aerospace industry; document handling; management information systems; Cassini Information Access System; GGI; Novell services; World Wide Web; access; anonymous ftp; interactive services; interactive systems; intranet technology; logistical project information; repositories; spacecraft assembling; spacecraft testing; technical documents management; user interface; Assembly; Databases; Job shop scheduling; Propulsion; Space technology; Space vehicles; System testing; User interfaces; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.653792

Filename

653792