As we are getting several new participants to the mailing list, I thought I'd 
send a quick e-mail to let the group know what is ongoing. I'll try to update 
this thread as things change.

C++

Gordon Waidhofer is working on a C++ library.  He's got al alpha quality 
library, but the following things remain: XML marshalling, structured vendor 
extension support.

Perl

John Hogerhuis has released a nearly complete Perl library.  This library is 
great for starting with LLRP.  If you are building quick testing tools for 
LLRP, this can't be beat.  You can create an LLRP message using XML and the 
library can serialize and de-serialize these to LLRP binary.  He has the 
following remaining: structured vendor extensions

Java

There is a great Java library available from Joe Hoag that almost fits the 
architecture we have defined. A discussion on the list has revealed that 
Christian F. and Prasith G. are going to work together to bring this library in 
line with the architecture.  There is much work to be done, and two folks have 
already signed up and begun.

.NET

Someone has offered a .NET library to the toolkit, but not publicly to this 
mailing list so it is hard to keep track of its status. If you are interested 
in developing .NET libraries using the toolkit architecture, let me know. The 
other efforts in C++, Java, and Perl should give you a great head start. I 
apologize, this does sound very open-source. I don't want to scare people away 
from working on much needed .NET support, but I also don't want to divide the 
community's effort on .NET into two efforts.

Testing

A test framework for all the libraries that connect them through 
XML<->NativeObjects Lib 1<->LLRP Binary <-> NativeObjects Lib2 <-> XML and 
LLRPBinary<->NativeObjects<->XML<->NativeObjects<->LLRPBinary to provide 
qualification of every message.  With this model, we can create millions of 
LLRP packets and literally test almost every valid LLRP packet. 

Other languages

I am not aware of any ongoing development in other languages.  If you have 
interest, feel free to make suggestions to the list.

General

Need a good document describing the toolkit architecture and the different 
library components 
I'd love to see one reader and one client application using the toolkit 
provided as part of the kit.  Rifidi has already built and released a Beta 
Virtual LLRP reader simulator.  I'm not sure what the client app could be, but 
I envision an LLRP based test tool, or an LLRP configuration wizard.  

Next steps:

If you have an interest in any of this, or want to suggest something else, 
please join the mailing list and introduce yourself and your team to the group, 
expressing your interest.

Regards

Paul



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