Tethys Documentation
Manuals
These manuals require a portable document format (PDF) viewer.
- Tethys - Main manual, provides comprehensive overview of the software.
- Data Explorer - Program run on your local machine that provides a web-based method of exploring Tethys data without requiring extensive knowledge about Tethys.
- Web Client - The web client is an interface provided by the Tethys server that lets one query and save data, import data, and access the help system (this page).
- Querying data - Overview of querying and saving data
- Data import - Discusses methods for importing data.
- Tethys clients - Language-specific interfaces for people wishing to interact with Tethys from a specific programming language. Designed for large-scale analysis.
- Nitty gritty - Information on more complex aspects of Tethys, usually only of interest to programmers or IT administrators.
- Nilus XML Generator - A Java library for generating Tethys-compliant XML from DCL algorithms. Can be used from any language that can call Java (e.g., MATLAB).
- Web Services Interface - Tethys uses a RESTful architecture to provide services between the server and client. This documents the REST specification.
- Secure Socket Layer - Information on running Tethys over an encrypted channel (secure socket layer).
- Application programming interface documentation - While not available from this help system, JavaDoc APIs are avaialble for Nilus and the Java client. See file target/apidocs/index-all.html which is present for these clients.
Tutorial-style Manuals
These documents are designed to be more tutorial in nature.