New Features
Native support of OPC UA
Support of TAI for timestamps
- integration
Integration with a database for more than 32 items history for an attribute
Fully Java BACI support
Fully Python BACI support
Structure BACI properties (even if basic / with limitations)
Simpler CDB: The CDB XML interface feels very clumsy and not well documented. Is there a way to give beginners a simpler file based CDB for testing which is maybe based on someting like YAML, TOML, JSON, INI or so? I guess the XML was chosen, so that the schemata can be validated, but is that something beginners even need?
Add security features:
Authentication and authorization
Session binding
Encryption
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Features that could be improved
ACS shipping
Slim-down ACS dependencies - e.g. Python, Python Libraries, ...
ACS & Python
Can we get ACS to use the System Python instead of shipping their own
?- Use stdlib Python logging, while ACS just hooks an "ACSHandler" into the stdlib python
- Enumerations in IDL, they do not get properly translated into Python Enums
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- How can we get the contents of the "acscommandcenter" in a PySimpleClient? In particular, how can we start containers, stop containers, check which containers are running, from a PySimpleClient?
ACS technologies you'd think needs a replacement (please indicate the reason: obsolescence, security, ...)
- DDS (see yesterday )Not urgent, but alternatives to CORBA should be studied discussion)
- Old-style makefile
- Use of modern unit-test frameworks instead of TAT
- Not urgent, but alternatives to CORBA should be studied
Enhancing the ACS experience
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