Hi LLRP Team, This is Prasith from the Rifidi project and I wanted to touch base and provide an update on where we stand with the development of a Virtual LLRP Reader.
To provide some background we have been working with the Java LLRP bindings to essentially create a software based LLRP reader that will allow validation and testing of the framework. As most of you may know the LLRP toolkit doesn't give a concrete implementation that a user can play around with and the best way to spur adoption is to have something that people can use to 'kick the tires' of the new specification. This is also something that many of our customers and university partners have asked for because they wish to see the impact of the LLRP specification and relate it to what they know about readers today. That is where the Rifidi LLRP reader fits in. It allows the creation of a software based reader to interact with and try out the different operations and get a feel for how it might work. We just released a beta version of our reader today and we wanted to let everyone in this community know so that we can start to test it out and use it to validate the LLRP Toolkit as well. It operates on a byte level so it should be language independent and toolkit independent. It has a lot of the basic functionality surrounding ROSpec, AISpec and ROReports and we are adding more of the specifications' features day by day. It currently only supports a basic duration based trigger and we are working on adding more triggers in as well. Also one more key item is that we have also developed a very simple LLRP Hello World application that will connect to this reader and perform basic tag functions. We have put together some documentation around this and we think it is a good way for people to get started with LLRP. You can check all of this out at the following links: LLRP Hello World Quickstart Document and Code https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=63189&group_id=170933 LLRP Release and notes http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=719573 As stated this is very much a beta release and we are still working on doing a complete one but the whole point of this was to get this out to the community as soon as possible so that it can be validated and also to provide feedback as to it's accuracy and usefulness. Having been involved with the LLRP-Toolkit since it's inception we really want to see it succeed so we are very open to contributing any parts of this effort to the LLRP tookit as well. We think that the hello world quick start and even the virtual reader would be a great candidate for this. Once we can iron this out and release a reader that is blessed by the community our intention is to focus on the Java Bindings to LLRP and bring that up to standard in terms of XSD compatibility and ease of use. But that is a different beast altogether and one that we will address soon. Thanks, Prasith PS: If you made it all the way to the end of this email that means you have a great attention span. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ llrp-toolkit-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/llrp-toolkit-devel
