CoDecS: A Multi Protocol Platform for Environmental Emergency Notification and Handling

Emergency support systems have to provide information on environmental emergencies timely and reliable. In order to fulfil these requirements, different technical means can be used. In this paper, we describe CoDecS, the multi protocol platform for the European Commission Urgent Radiological Information Exchange (ECURIE). Technically, CoDecS is based on the programming language Java, Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), and Java Beans, ISDN as the communica- tion backbone, and Telex as the low tech backup communication means. We present the requirements, the overall approach, important aspects of the communication, and the software architecture. One of the major highlights of CoDecS is its unique combination of Java and Telex.