  Visual DCT is an EPICS configuration tool completely written in Java and
therefore supported in various systems. It was developed to provide features
missing in existing configuration tools as Capfast and GDCT. Visually Visual
DCT resembles GDCT - records can be created, moved and linked, fields and links
can be easily modified. But Visual DCT offers more: using groups, records can
be grouped together in a logical block, which allows a hierarchical design.
Additionally indication of data flow direction using arrows makes the design
easier to understand. Visual DCT has a powerful DB parser, which allows
importing existing DB and DBD files. Output file is also DB file, all comments
and record order is preserved and visual data saved as comment, which allows
DBs to be edited in other tools or manually. Great effort has been taken and
many tricks used to optimize the performance in order to compensate for the
fact that Java is an interpreted language.
