OPC Gateway Documentation

This document describes the OPC Gateway, which means the OPC Adapter together with the RDA system and the server framework, running on WindowsNT. The OPC Gateway gives a CORBA interface to OPC servers, for use in the Controls Middleware.

For clarity, this document uses the following definitions:

RDA: Remote Device Access, implementing a CORBA interface.
SFW: Server framework, implementing adapter-independant functionality.
OPC Adapter: Implements a general adapter interface to provide access to OPC servers.
OPC Gateway: The entire executable, including RDA, SFW and OPC Adapter, and also the WindowsNT specific code that makes it run as a NT service.

Contained in this document are instructions how to run, configure, recompile and troubleshoot the OPC Gateway. See next page for this: General overview.

Image: The relationship between the RDA, the SFW, the OPC Adapter and the OPC Gateway.

This is the OPC Gateway Documentation, describing how to use and recompile the OPC Gateway as a NT Service.
Also relevant are: the OPC Adapter Reference Manual - HTML (for quick on-line lookups), the OPC Adapter Reference Manual - RTF (suitable for printing) and the OPC Adapter Technical Documentation (how to extend/improve).