Re: Creating a Kafka Stream connector for PLC4X?

2018-03-21 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Alright... So to repeat (and I think you get this much)... Kafka is in principle very simple; Put any byte array into a topic in one end, and readers can get that byte array from that topic somewhere else. Just a simple message queue, at an abstract level. And the Kafka client libraries for doing

Re: Creating a Kafka Stream connector for PLC4X?

2018-03-21 Thread Christofer Dutz
Hi Niclas, have to admit I don't know in detail either ... it was part of a talk a colleague of mine held at a Kafka meetup in our office. Also I'm not into Kafka half as deep as you ... from a user point of view it looked as if such a Kafka Connect adapter would be a good idea. I'm trying to

Re: RawSocket renamed to RawIpSocket and new RawEthernetSocket

2018-03-21 Thread Christofer Dutz
Hi Alex, sorry for the late response. I was sort of consumed with loads of PLC4X tasks that didn't involve coding, but more talking and convincing __ Thanks for that suggestion. It definitely sounds like a good option ... I think we should keep that in mind, or you try your luck in

We're (almost) ready to go with OPC-UA

2018-03-21 Thread Christofer Dutz
Hi all, I just wanted to report that my inquiries with the OPC-Foundation were successful (Ok in the end it turned out that we wouldn’t have needed to ask). They officially confirmed that the License of the Spec allows us to implement the OPC-UA driver and that the spec is no longer under