A generic communication interface for DPWS-based web services

Abstract

To withstand future socio-economic challenges new approaches to industrial control have emerged. These methodologies require however the underlying systems to be fully integrated from an information technology point of view. Not all existing distributed technologies have proven successful in managing interoperability constraints. The research in service oriented architectures has shown promising results in managing information exchange between heterogeneous systems and in hiding their complexity by providing platform agnostic service descriptions. However in highly dynamic systems where changes are to happen in runtime implementation issues arise. Typically the heterogeneity of most systems causes reprogramming to happen periodically to accommodate changes and the dimension of the code often boosts. This paper addresses this problematic presenting a generic communication interface for web services that contributes to ease these problems.