Hi, yes, it makes sense to have such component directly in Camel, easier to maintain with new Camel changes/updates.
Regards JB On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 5:53 PM Andrea Cosentino <anco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > Moving the component to Camel is more than welcome. > > We might help with the migration for sure. > > Thanks for reaching out to us. > > Il giorno mer 12 ott 2022 alle ore 16:06 Christofer Dutz < > christofer.d...@c-ware.de> ha scritto: > > > Hi all, > > > > after a few chats at last week’s ApacheCon, I would like to start a > > discussion on moving the Apache PLC4X Camel components into the Apache > > Camel project. > > > > With these components, we are able to read data from industrial > > programmable logic controllers or other hardware and stream that into Camel > > or consume data in Camel and write this information back into the PLCs. > > > > We started off building the components in PLC4X, but I think there are > > several benefits for bringing it to the Camel project such as: > > > > * Having the components listed in the official “Camel Store” for easy > > setup > > * Having the components maintained to keep them up to date with > > changes in Camel > > > > I know that on the other side, if we moved the components here, the Camel > > project now would need to react to changes in the PLC4X project, but our > > Read/Write/Subscribe API has generally been pretty stable and the ones > > we’re currently fine-tuning (Auto-Discover, Browse) are ones the components > > not yet utilize. > > > > I’d also be willing to come along and take care of maintaining PLC4X > > related changes. > > > > What do you folks think? We had discussed this in the Apache PLC4X project > > before and then it was general consensus, that we’d love to do this. But I > > would re-activate that discussion on our list, if there’s interest on your > > side. > > > > Chris > >
