Object oriented internet

Abstract

The widespread use of the HTTP and hypertext makes it possible to freely publish new information and expose it in the context of its description. Unfortunately, this is a human-centric environment that cannot easily be adapted to an application-centric approach, which is required to provide distributed enterprise management and real-time process control. In this article new architecture is presented that can provide a generic solution for publishing and updating information in the context that can be used to describe and discover it. It is proposed to distribute the publisher (server) tasks to three classes: (a) information context management using the object oriented programming paradigm, (b) a predefined fixed set of services to access data and meta-data, and (c) a pluggable custom process data binding mechanism. It is also proposed to implement this architecture using the OPC Unified Architecture - a new emerging industrial integration standard.