TMS makes use of object-oriented design and programming techniques. TMS is not one overall program. Applications in all areas are operational and in production, e.g. controlling the telescopes, reading out the data of the new digital backend, calculations of delay and fringe steering parameters, setting up the specifications for a new observations, making a schedule, gathering monitor parameters and so on.
Resources describe a device, an application or a function like pointing.
These resources are used both during specification and during device control. WSRT proposals are checked in into the TMS WWW area. The information present here can be used to specify an observation. Once a couple of observations are specified, a schedule can be made. Making a schedule is dependent on a lot of parameters, on which RA coverage is one of them.