XDS, "X-ray Detector Software", is a collection of programs written by Wolfgang Kabsch at Max-Planck Instutute for Medical Research in Heidelberg "for the reduction of single-crystal diffraction data recorded on a planar detector by the rotation method using monochromatic X-rays." XDS has produced excellent results with data collected here at CHESS, but requires some time and effort on the part of beamline users to learn even when "example" input scripts are made available. So...
webXDS was written by me to facilitate data reduction by users at the CHESS protein crystallography beamlines, and is completely independent and separate from XDS itself. webXDS merely automates the generation and execution of command files needed by XDS and auxilliary programs through a web-based graphical interface. My design goals are that the webXDS interface should be intuitive, fast, and easy to use. As this is the first and preliminary release of webXDS, users will undoubtedly discover problems. Please report failures, bugs, desired and undesired features, and even successes to me at the e-mail addresses below. I will do my best to respond quickly to your suggestions. Thanks.