Article Discussion: Accessing Devices Using a Web Service

The old days when embedded devices and factory floor machines had only minimal interaction with humans the on/off button and little else are gone. Today the ability to access the device from anywhere is expected. This is a significant challenge when we are sweating over every dollar required in hardware. With a little bit of knowledge and a relatively small piece of software we can provide a Web service for this type of interaction.


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Article should explain some idea or engineering process or some implementation startegy or some experience sharing or some thought provoking technical issues.

It is hard to understand anything from this article.

Supporting material (some codes, decade old well known codes for client, server connection over sockets or coding convention for different OS including VxWorks) do not have any (or little) logical relation with discussed materials.

Over all comments: Article written in a poor fashion.

Thank You.

Actually, I thought the article to be very well written and informative. You're right, I would like to have seen some support files, and I'll talk to the author to see if we can get any. The point of the article was in the creation of a Web Service to control machinery, and it does a fair job without getting to be a 40 page article on the subject matter. The subject matter is EXTREMELY large in scope and should really be more of a series (I believe it is, actually).

Thanks for your comments. I'll make sure the right people see them.

*You said:
"Thanks for your comments. I'll make sure the right people see them."

Well Mr. Administrator, the comment was absolutely my personal views after reading the article. I am not sure wheather I am the right people or not to pass the comment on your published article, I have been working on similar technology (hardcore embeded systems and programming) for last 18 years. And I made comment based on those experience and reading the article.

*You said:
"The subject matter is EXTREMELY large in scope and should really be more of a series (I believe it is, actually)"

Now please tell me, which article published in the devArticle, didnt covere a part of EXTREMELY large topic?. My point is, anything that published in the devArticle (or anywhere in the Internet of similar site) is a part of large topics.

When we readers make a comment here in the forum, we do it for a debate on the topics. Hopefully, the writer will come forward with answer and argument, ant not necessarily the Administrator.

In assessing a debate, you have to adopt the role of an average reasonable person with an average reasonable knowledge of the subject under debate but with expert knowledge of the rules of the debate.

AND FINALLY:

By reading article, we understand following:

- it is obvious that author has good real life experiences in doing similar things that mentioned in the topics

-But unfortunately topics not written organized way.