Chris, Can you point at the starting point for your Connector? Happy to do a quick review of code.
I'll admit, I'm a bit confused by the PLC4X positioning -- it seems to claim to be universal IoT protocol, but then I see, e.g., nothing about MQTT on the front page, a protocol that Kafka Connect already has a couple of Connectors for. Could you clarify what format/serialization/use case PLC4X has? -Ewen On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 7:43 AM Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am one of the Apache PLC4X (incubating) committers and am looking for > people willing to help out with a little thing. > > PLC4X is aiming at industrial programmable logic controllers. So what we > are doing is similar what JDBC did in the late 90s. > > We’ve implemented a universal API with which we can write software to > access industrial PLCs in a unified way. > In contrast to OPC-UA we do not require any changes on the devices as we > implement the drivers for the individual protocols as main part of the > PLC4X project. > > We hope that this will help us use all our cool Apache software for > building the next generation of Industry 4.0 solutions, > as currently it’s a real problem to communicate with these little gray > boxes directly. > > We not only work hard on the API and the matching drivers, but also on > integration modules to easily use PLC4X in other frameworks. > We already have full Apache Camel and Apache Edgent support. > > Even if we do have examples for reading and writing data from and to > Kafka, we would really like to provide a Kafka-Connect adapter. > This would make it super easy to communicate with industrial controllers > from inside the Kafka ecosystem. > > I have already implemented a stub of a Kafka Connect plugin with Source > and Sink partially implemented. > So this stub has all the code for reading and writing via PLC4X but I am > not quite that deep into Kafka that I think I should finish this > implementation without professional support of the people actually knowing > what they are doing on the Kafka side. > > So is anyone here able and willing to help with this Kafka Connect Plugin > for PLC4X? > > Looking forward to positive responses ;-) > > Chris >
