Im involved in a project where multiple devices (essentially running raw socket servers) need to pass their information through PI into ECC. Previously I have bound the socket servers using a Java desktop application and passed the data via JCO directly into ECC - now Im looking for a better way.
Ive heard talk of Seeburger being able to bind Raw sockets - but haven't seen proof of this and cant seem to find any documentation to these ends.
Ive seen talk on the forums around writing a servlet or something similar to connect to the socket servers and pass the data into integration via file or some other means but management of the connections and maintaining the connections strikes me a problematic.
Ive thought that a custom adapter could be written to do this work but the idea of writing a custom adapter does not excite me ...
Whats the best solution ?