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.
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.