Asian
Interoperability Workshop 2009 - Tokyo
Event
The OPC Foundation is organizing
an OPC Interoperability Workshop in Tokyo,
Japan.
This workshop
will run from 10:00 AM on Tuesday, June 16th,
2009 through 5:00 PM on Thursday, June 18th, 2009.
All OPC Foundation
members are once again encouraged to use this upcoming test session as not
only a mechanism to validate their products, but to also debug and diagnose
any interoperability problems that may be discovered. This year's session
will allow up to a maximum qty (40) participants to validate Data Access (V2
and V3) interoperability, XML-DA, Alarms and Events and Historical Data
Access,and OPC Unified Architecture.
The purpose of this
workshop is to make sure that our OPC products work together. We want to
validate interoperability for all required interfaces and functions, as well
as validate interoperability for any optional interfaces where practical. We
will document interoperability issues that occur for purposes of adding
clarity to the OPC specifications. You should plan on helping to debug issues
that occur, and be prepared to modify your software components if required.
We will be testing primarily for successful operation between clients and
servers but will test for failure as time permits. Please plan on attending
all days of the workshop if possible.
Online registration is now available.
On the last day,
challenge time will be held. In this event, client application connects
multi-servers simultaneously and access many items. This test’s purpose is a
stress test to client’s and server’s transaction. The application form of
challenge time is here.
This year
participation will be free of charge.
If you wish to attend,
please go to the Online Registration page to register your contact data and -
on a second page - the applications you are going to test. Note that you will
be able to add or modify the registered applications anytime until the
workshop.
A document is
available for download that explains step by step how to register and other
features that are available for IOP Workshop participants.
We look forward to
your participation.
You will be required to
bring a computer (notebooks preferred due to tabletop space limitations). We
will provide room and network (10/100BaseT), but we will not provide network
cables. You will be required to bring the network cable. See also the more
detailed workshop guidelines. If you will be testing an OPC server
then you must either provide simulated data or real data acquired from a
device.
Unified
Architecture Testing
 With
the release of commercial OPC UA products, OPC UA
testing will now occur as an integral part of the
Interoperability Workshop,
in the same room side by side with OPC classic (COM)
testing. This will also make it easier to test
hybrid applications like the UA Wrappers and Proxies. UA
and OPC COM applications will run on the same network,
but UA-only machines will not have to be configured for
DCOM security.
DA Clients can Qualify for the Self-Tested Logo
SAMPLE109x133.jpg) In
order for a DA Client to qualify to use the 'Self-Tested' logo, the product must be tested at an
Interoperability Workshop
with other DA Servers
and it must pass a supervised test with the OPC
Analyzer. The interoperability workshops will be the
only venue clients are tested with the Analyzer,
so this is your chance to qualify for the logo .
In order to greatly improve your chances of passing, DA
client vendors should
download the OPC Analyzer and test your client
yourself beforehand.
UA DA COM Wrapper
A beta
version of the UA DA COM Wrapper is available for
download. No special sessions are planned on this but -
if interested - you should try this wrapper before the
workshop and use the IOP to exchange your experiences
with other participants and the OPC staff on hand.
Recommended
This workshop will be operated by OPC Japan. OPC Japan won't prepare an
English translator for the workshop.
You may need to get an English translator yourself if you don't speak
Japanese.
Facility
The location of the
IOP test facility is:
Agenda
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Day
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Agenda
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1
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Start at
10:00 a.m.
Network
and Computer Setup
DCOM
Configuration
Verify
connectivity.
11:00 - 18:00
General
Testing
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2
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09:00 -
18:00
General
Testing
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3
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09:00 -
15:30
General
Testing
15:30 - 17:00
Wrap-up
Generate
final databases
Finish at 17:00
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Day 1 AM:
We will start with network
configuration, followed by DCOM configuration. A "share" partition
on the file server can be used to exchange files if necessary.
For the rest of the
morning
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All Servers have to be specified by
means of a Web-based entry-form (ProgID, general properties, supported
optional interfaces, supported ItemIDs /Conditions. These data will go into
the test database and will be available for the clients as test data.
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Clients will also use Web-based
entry-forms to find available servers, view their properties, select them for
testing, fill in test results, etc.
Day 1 PM - Day 3 AM:
These three days will
be available for general testing. Every client has to perform an IOP test
with every server of different vendors. Web-based forms will show the status
with respect to available servers and clients.
We estimate an average
of 45 minutes for each test combination.
Each client vendor has
to enter the test results for each tested server into the database (web-based
again). The database will be available to all participants at the end of the
workshop.
Some of us will be
available to help resolve general problems (DCOM, network, specification
ambiguities)
Day 3 PM:
On the afternoon of
the last day, connected confirmation of N
pair 1 and the multi-item access confirmation are executed.
Finally we complete
the database with all results and making the results available to you. The
workshop will end by 17:00.
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