uForte OPC Server (DA, AE and HDA) Development Kit
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Overview
"uForte OPC Server (DA,AE and HDA) Development Kit" is a tool for rapid development of OPC DA, AE and HDA servers. The toolkit will guide you through the whole process of OPC server development from design to deployment (yes, at the end it will create a distributable, self installing package "setup.exe" for your OPC server). You don't need to learn any of the OPC specifications to develop your own OPC server, though that knowledge would be a plus. All the required and most of the optional OPC interfaces are already implemented in the product for you. You just control data these interfaces work on. To do that you will have to implement an application providing IO operations with your hardware, database or anything else. The source of the data isn't limited and it is up to you what it will be. The only restriction here is your ability to write IO operations in either VB6 or VB.Net or C# or C++. This product will take care of the rest for you.Data provided by your application become immediately available to OPC DA clients. Then those data get archived into a database to be available to OPC HDA clients at any time. However, you don't have a direct access to the database from your application. For OPC AE clients you can generate a variety of events of your choice. That is illustrated on the picture below where CCM is your application:
"Configuration Wizard" included in the toolkit generates a template of your application which will provide IO functions. The template is a Ms Visual Studio project containing well commented IO operation examples for the OPC items specified in the OPC server's address space. The programming language and the Ms Visual Studio version can be selected from the lists, here is a snapshot of the wizard:
When you are finished with your CCM and have tested it you probably want to distribute your OPC server onto other computers. Here "Deployment Wizard" comes into play where you can specify your contact details to customize your OPC server. The wizard takes the current configuration and creates a self installing "setup.exe". The "setup.exe" will contain everything including "uForte OPC Server" engine, address space structure and your CCM. After installing that on another computer the current configuration will be installed. Here is a snapshot of the wizard:
