Chapter 8 - Tie Your Driver's Communicator Component to Your Driver's Tcp/Ip Device, Serial Network, or Tcp/IpGateway Component.

While following the examples in this chapter, please replace the text jarFileName, yourDriver and yourCompany as previously described in the Preparation section):

Redefine the communicator property as follows on your driver's Tcp Device, Tcp Gateway Network, Udp Device, Udp Gateway Network or Serial Network (which ever one applies to your driver, if you followed chapters 3 and 7 then only one of these three scenarios should apply):

For a TCP or UDP device, your device component's slotomatic header should look something like this:

  /*-
  class BYourDriverDevice
  {
    properties
    {
      communicator : BValue
        -- This plugs in an instance of yourDriver's
        -- communicator onto the device to which
        -- the Niagara station's platform will directly
        -- communicate.
        default{[ new BYourDriverCommunicator() ]}
    }
  }
  -*/

For a TCP or UDP gateway network, your gateway network component's slotomatic header should look something like this:

  /*-
  class BYourDriverGatewayNetwork
  {
    properties
    {
      communicator : BValue
        -- This plugs in an instance of yourDriver's
        -- communicator onto the gateway network component.
        -- The Niagara station's platform will communicate
        -- directly to the corresponding gateway unit on the
        -- field-bus.
        default{[ new BYourDriverCommunicator() ]}
    }
  }
  -*/

For a serial network, your serial network component's slotomatic header should look something like this:

  /*-
  class BYourDriverNetwork
  {
    properties
    {
      communicator : BValue
        -- This plugs in an instance of yourDriver's
        -- communicator onto the serial network component.
        -- The Niagara station's platform will communicate
        -- over a serial port that is configured on this
        -- serial network. You can look at the property
        -- sheet of this communicator to review the exact
        -- settings.
        default{[ new BYourDriverCommunicator() ]}
    }
  }
  -*/

Run slotomatic and perform a full build on your driver (as described in Chapter 2).