| Bharath Sundararaman 2005-07-25, 5:45 pm |
| Hi Niclas,
Do you have any example code where MINA sends/receives data from a PLC?
I'm trying to use Ethernet/IP (CIP over Ethernet) to talk to PLCs in
vain.
Bharath.
-----Original Message-----
From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:niclas-fxYu5tZJV0NAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org]=20
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 1:55 AM
To: Apache Directory Developers List
Subject: Re: [MINA] and readiness selection
On Wednesday 20 July 2005 02:34, Bharath Sundararaman wrote:
> Scenario 2
> I have an application that does asynchronous reads and writes to
devices
> (e.g. PLC) via ethernet/ip.=20
> So, communication with the device happens using a SelectableChannel
(tied
> to the device's IP address) which registers with a selector for
read/write
> interest and when data has to be read from a device, a read event is
pushed
> onto a queue, selector is woken up and read happens. There could be
many
> reads happening at the same time or alternate reads and writes in a
totally
> ad-hoc fashion. Is MINA a good choice for this scenario where you send
and
> receive bytes of data to devices?
I don't think this is any more unique to MINA than for normal sockets.
You=20
would always need to provide the scheduler of request/response pairs,
and the=20
algorithm of how much concurrency can occur over the same port, which is
probably defined by the devices. My guess is that most PLCs will only
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one request for connection, which also makes the scheduler on the
"client"=20
simpler.
For real high perfomance communication subsystems to PLCs, it is likely
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you will need a 3 stage SEDA architecture, where the you have an Encode,
Communicate and Decode stage independently chewing away at their
respective=20
parts. And in that fashion, it seems to me MINA fits the bill well.
If PLCs are "your daily bread", then I would like to advertise a just
started=20
project of OpenHMI.org, which will look into developing the HMI side of
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equation. This effort is not yet started, mainly awaiting the holiday
seasons=20
in Sweden to finish.
Cheers
Niclas
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