The OPC Foundation is organizing an OPC Interoperability Workshop in Boca Raton, FL. This workshop will run from
1:00 PM on Monday, March 2, 2009 through Noon on Friday, March 6, 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 (60) vendors to validate Data Access (V1, V2 and V3) interoperability, XML-DA, Alarms and Events, 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.

NEW! -   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

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.

Registration

Registration (online) for this workshop is now available.