Looks good to me, see nothing wrong, don't miss anything. - Sebastian
On 2025/11/27 10:41:00 Christofer Dutz wrote: > Hi all, > > As many of you might know, mid of this year I applied for several public > research funding rounds with the main goal to refactor PLC4J to rid ourselves > of some of the technical debt we have piled up. Most of the work was around > rewriting the current SPI to work entirely without Netty. Beyond that to > implement a Transport layer that supports multiple connection instances to > share one transport instance (Like needed for ModbusRTU and BacNET, …) Also > to allow multiple transport instances being used by one connection instance > (Like for Profinet and Cesar’s S7 variant). > > Now it seems that both applications were judged favorably. Now I could need > some input from you guys where you see more need for cleaning up. > > So far, the tasks I applied and which I just got informed that they received > Funding are: > > > * > Implement new SPI > * > Implement new Read-/WriteBuffers that work without third party dependencies > * > Update the code generation framework > * > Implement a new system for pluggable transports > * > Implement the code for the concept of a layered protocol drivers > * > Update the existing drivers to use the new SPI > > The second package I would try to change the other would be: > > * > Implement a new Code-Generation for PLC4J based on JavaPoet (Getting rid of > freemarker (at least for Java)) > * > Implement a new connection-cache component > * > Implement a new Scraper alternative (able to use subscription-based triggers) > * > Implement a new Base-Driver that emulates subscriptions by using the new > scraper > * > Fix the issues in the S7 driver allowing us to merge the two back together > * > Add some Audit-Log functionality, that allows us to better diagnose issues > > Does that make sense from your perspective? > Anything missing you think I should focus on? > > I think a bit quicker feedback than usually here would be helpful, as I need > to finish the Sovereign Tech Fund paperwork as soon as possible. > > Chris >
