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Starthis OSGi based SOA archtecture makes it faster, more scalable, service oriented, much easier to integrate, and supports IEC 61131-3 open standard.•
This web page illustrates Starthis' iTapestry 4 software architecture, which is the key element in delivering better performance. Starthis offers solutions that are 100% Java 5, SOA, SCADA, and OSGi compatible. This helps to guarantee superior speed, stability and connectivity with other enterprise systems. This page is designed to offer technical details about the way it works. The biggest key advantage in Starthis is the single API interface we call the Loom. It is a single API and data presentation layer that connects plant floor equipment and enterprise applications, making integration projects much easier. The diagram below illustrates how this API simplifies and connects applications.
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Key Starthis iTapestry 4 Architecture Features:
-Platform management supports dynamic bundle upgrades
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- Loom Services: Unifying API
•-Web-based management console – Flex application
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-Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) compatible
•- Simplified Enterprise
Application Integration
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-Java 5 compliant
The Loom weaves everything together into a single API interface providing a common API and data presentation layer, and upwardly self describing metadata, does not hide the device behavior and allows for static and dynamic data models.
Starthis' iTapestry Loom provides users & integrators with vastly improved connectivity, better data usage, and faster application development
- Loom effectively connects all your applications via one single efficient interface for more reliable and easier connections
- Loom performs calls and usable methods to equipment (unlike the competition’s mere data pulls and puts;) simplifying application development into single step programming steps to slash development and configuration time
- Loom creates an intuitive programming structure to improve margins, increase efficiency, lower integration costs, enhances ROI, improve quality, making deployment faster and easier
Easy Enterprise Connectivity
- No new proprietary data systems or languages -- shortens initial deployment as well as any subsequent variations/changes.
- Unlike competitive solutions, no bottleneck data translation is required
- Enterprise Service Bus for easy central connection
- Accommodate legacy hardware and software
- Easy integration with enterprise applications
- Provide solutions acceptable to both plant floor and IT personnel
- Overcome interoperability of disparate hardware and network systems on the plant floor
- Superior programming architecture means easier and faster installations
- Easy Platform Configuration via Flex/Flash Management Console
Uses Open Standard Data Formats
- Updated IEC 61131-3 Library for unified data exchange
- OSGi Compliance – easier for component applications
- Single deployment framework for applications
- EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP, Siemens, Omron, GE connectivity - connects with DeviceNet and leading PLCs
This screenshot below shows the standard Starthis iTapestry 4 Management Console. It clearly shows what bundles are currently available and their current state.
From this console the bundles(packages of code)may be started, stopped and uninstalled. The left pane shows the details of the currently highlighted bundle. These details include the bundles manifest or OSGi description, the services that it is utilizing, and the run level at which the bundle becomes activated. The bottom panel shows the log of the OSGi framework.
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