Hi Daniel, Congratulations on your first ASF contribution!
I am also relatively new to the PLC4X community and am currently working on the plc4net revival. It is encouraging to see another contributor working on industrial automation tooling. The separation between the S88 domain model, persistence adapters, application use cases, and the NetBeans UI looks very interesting. I am also interested in how the physical model may eventually relate to PLC tags and industrial data sources. I just wanted to say hello and wish you success with the contribution. I look forward to following its progress. Best regards, Tom Daniel Campos <[email protected]> 于2026年9月19日周六 05:02写道： > Hi everyone, let me introduce myself again. I'm Daniel Campos (Dandrvms or > dacmz), from the CEOS Automatización team, working alongside Luis Rodríguez > and César García. As I mentioned before, I'm working on Malbec, an IDE for > industrial configuration built on top of the NetBeans RCP. > > Today I just made my first PR for this project in the feature/app branch at > plc4x-extras, marking my very first contribution to the foundation. Here is > a breakdown of the project structure: > > > - /api : Domain model and ports. S88Element is the minimal model unit: > an S88 entity that can hold children and structured property bags. > S88PlantModel is the orchestrator: the in-memory root of the element > tree, > the registry of classes/enumerations, and the event bus. Supporting > classes > provide S88ElementClass (reusable property templates), S88Enumeration, > S88Level, DataType/EngineeringUnits/Magnitude, the > S88ChangeEvent/S88ChangeListener observer contract, and the persistence > contracts S88Repository, S88Storage and S88RepositoryProvider. > - /data : Serialization adapters implementing the contracts above. > B2MMLRepositoryImpl parses/writes the main model using B2MML, the MESA > International schemas compiled with XMLBeans. AXMLRepositoryImpl > imports/exports the Rockwell FactoryTalk Batch .axml format. Formats are > pluggable: a new format is a new S88RepositoryProvider discovered > through > NetBeans Lookup. > - /core : Application layer. A set of use cases (create, update, delete, > rename elements; manage class templates and struct entries) are the only > way to mutate the model. Every mutation fires an S88ChangeEvent, so the > UI > stays in sync. > - /plant : The NetBeans sub-project in charge of the plant model's > lifecycle: project providers and factories, the hierarchy tree nodes > (one > per S88 level), project actions (import/export, templates, enumerations, > delete), and the shared panel/dialog builders reused across the > different > S88 levels. Loading and saving delegates to data repositories; UI > refresh > is event-driven, not manual. > - /project : The NetBeans project type (wizard, factory, folder > installer, logical view) that hosts the plant sub-project. > - /batch : Placeholder module reserved for future recipe management and > supervision. > > The Process Cell config editor is intentionally empty; the properties > dialog exposes only the General tab (name, level, class, display creation), > while content tabs (Attribute Tags, Parameters/Reports, Arbitration, etc.) > are placeholders. These are the targets of upcoming updates. > > Recipes/batch supervision and generic ISA-88 runtime support are outside > the scope of this PR (batch is a placeholder). > > Best regards, Daniel. >
