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Welcome to the ITEA SODA project.
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The SODA project is a European R&D project, part of the ITEA programme, itself a "cluster" organisation within the Eureka framework.
The objective of the SODA project is to create a service-oriented ecosystem built on top of the foundations laid by the groundbreaking SIRENA framework for high-level communications between devices based on the service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm.
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The SIRENA project has played a pioneering role by applying the SOA paradigm to communications and interworking between components at the device level. This service infrastructure for real-time embedded devices, used as a foundation for the SODA project, is defined in a platform-, language- and network-neutral way, applicable to a wide variety of networked devices for diverse applications in domains like industrial automation, automotive electronics, home and building automation, telecommunications, telemetry, medical instrumentation, etc.
On top of this communication infrastructure, there is a need to implement a comprehensive, scaleable, easy-to-deploy SOA ecosystem (complete tool suite) on industry-favourite platforms, supported by wired and wireless communications.
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What's new ?
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July 2009: Following a public review phase and a formal voting procedure, OASIS officially ratified as open international standards each of the three specifications making up WS-DD, (DPWS 1.1, WS-Discovery 1.1 and SOAP-over-UDP 1.1). The press release covering this event can be found here.
December 2008: The project went through the second ITEA review, which marks the official end of the project. Presentations given included a live demonstration of Schneider Electric's industrial demonstrator and a video presentation of the home & telecom demonstrator. The evaluators praised the innovative results delivered by the project as well as its significant contribution to the European embedded software industry. The project's deliverables have been uploaded to the 'Documents' section, and descriptions of the various demonstrators have been posted under 'Demonstrators'.
July 2008: DPWS submitted for standardisation at OASIS. A set of three related standards: DPWS, WS-Discovery and SOAP-over-UDP, collectively referred to as WS-DD (Web Services Discovery and Web Services Devices Profile), was submitted for standardisation to OASIS. A corresponding OASIS WS-DD Technical Committee was formed, in which Schneider Electric participates, together with its subcontractor Odonata. Other members of this committee include Microsoft, IBM, CA, Novell, Software AG, Red Hat, Progress Software, WSO2, Canon, Fuji Xerox, Lexmark, Ricoh, Dortmund University and Rostock University.
June 2008: In a collaborative effort between Geensys and RDTL, an external project partner, the project’s automotive demonstrator was re-oriented towards the provision and management of on-demand transport services.
April 2008: Industrial automation demonstrator prototype developed at Loughborough University, successfully exhibited at the MACH 2008 fair in Birmingham, UK.
October 2007: The SODA project was presented at the annual ITEA Symposium, held in Berlin.
July 2007: A collaborative, configuration-controlled open-source development environment has been opened at www.soa4d.org. This site (which still has some rough edges) will be gradually improved and will host several implementations of the DPWS protocol stack, as well as extensions thereof. Initial projects created are based on Schneider Electric's DPWS implementation (C and Java language versions available under the Lesser GNU Public License model), initially released in January 2007. This source code also remains available in the Downloads section of the present site.
June 2007: The project passed the first ITEA review, obtaining quite favourable comments on its potential to provide a substantial contribution to the European embedded software industry.
April 2007: Publication of an updated version of the SODA TFD.
January 2007: Release by Schneider Electric of the first open-source implementation of the "Devices Profile for Web Services" (DPWS) aimed at embedded devices. Both a C language version and a Java language version are available. Licensing is based on the LGPL (Lesser GNU Public License) model. Ref. the Downloads section of this Web site.
December 2006: Publication of the initial version of the SODA Technical Framework Definition (TFD).
October 2006: The SODA project was presented at the ITEA Symposium held in Paris.
January 2006: The project kicked off in the beginning of 2006. Due to the delays in allocation of national fundings, the project will operate full-steam from July 2006 onwards.
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