Leveraging OSGi and Eclipse technologies for a service oriented middleware in industrial machines

Author

Hargassner, Walter ; Dorninger, Bernhard

Author_Institution

Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Hagenberg, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Eclipse technologies are widely used for desktop and even enterprise solutions. In contrast, the use of Eclipse technologies in automation is less common. Together with our customer, we have developed a service oriented middleware based on OSGi and Eclipse for loosely coupling real-time control software with machine and process visualization applications. We will show the requirements steering us towards these technologies and will elaborate on design, implementation and deployment. The insights gained from these steps show the adequacy of selected Eclipse technologies for serving tasks in machine automation software.

Keywords

control engineering computing; data visualisation; machinery; middleware; process control; production engineering computing; service-oriented architecture; Eclipse technology; OSGi technology; industrial machines; machine automation software; process visualization application; real-time control software; service oriented middleware; Adaptation models; Data models; Load modeling; Machinery; Middleware; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2011 IEEE 16th Conference on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1946-0740

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0017-0

Electronic_ISBN

1946-0740

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2011.6058990

Filename

6058990