COEUS Technical Overview 

This message is designed to assist technical support personnel who are supporting the Coeus user population throughout the UMB campus.

What is Coeus?
Coeus is a software application licensed by MIT that supports the UMB research community's needs to electronically create and route proposals for sponsored research project grants to external sponsors, especially the Federal Government.
 
Coeus is composed of three main modules:

• Electronic Proposal Development
• Institute Proposal (Proposal Data Management)
• Award

UMB Faculty and Administrators will be using the Proposal Development module to create and route proposals for approval.  Select individuals (primarily from the Office of Research Development) will receive access to the Institute Proposal and Award modules for “back office” transactions and reporting.
 
What technologies are used?
Coeus is a multi-tiered application whose user interface, written using Java Swing GUI components, resides on the user desktop.  Coeus supports a “business rule” tier that runs as Java Servlets in a Tomcat application server.  The database is Oracle.  Coeus desktop components can execute on both the Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Java Runtime Environment
The COEUS JWS service has been configured to automatically download and run using the specific JRE 1.4.X that COEUS requires.  There is no need to uninstall higher version of the JRE (i.e. JRE 1.5, Java 6) if they exist on the user’s machine.  COEUS will ignore these higher versions and use only JRE 1.4.X.  A planned future upgrade of COEUS from MIT will support the higher JRE versions.  Ensure that unneeded versions of Java are deleted, to avoid memory problems.
 
We are currently working on a similar solution to support the Macintosh platform. In the meantime, please make sure that the JRE is installed on any Mac machine prior to using COEUS and do not rely on any auto-download capabilities.
 
Please also verify that all applications deployed to the desktop that requires the use of a JRE be fully tested for compatibility.
 
Windows Requirements
Coeus will run on any windows platform that is certified to run the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) versions 1.4.2_11 through 1.4.2_15.  Administrative privileges will be required to install the JRE.  the JRE should automatically download when Coeus is accessed through the Portal.
Vista users working from home will need to load Java first before attempting Coeus.
 
Macintosh Requirements
Coeus requires Mac OS X 10.3.5 or higher and Java 1.4.2 Update 1.   Only one version of Java can run on the Mac OS.  You may be prompted for an Administrator password in order to perform the updates. 
For Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4, the download is available on the Reference Material page of this website.
For Mac OS X 10.5, follow these installation instructions:
   1. Download Coeus.dmg
   2. Double-click on the downloaded file to open and mount the disk image
   3. Drag the Coeus folder to copy it to your Mac’s Applications folder (this destination is critical)
   4. Run Coeus by double-clicking on the Coeus 4.2 icon in the Coeus folder
   5. Email Colin Hunter so you can be informed of any future updates.

How does the user access Coeus?
Users access Coeus via a link located on the myUMB Campus Portal.  Each defined COEUS user will receive a “COEUS” link in their Enterprise Menu options.  A polling process runs every 20 minutes to update the Enterprise Menu link for new Coeus users.