Introduction to SAF

SAF (Station Automation Framework) is a platform for executing, configuring and monitoring automation modules.

It implements the following basic features:

• Same user experience for all automation modules

• Runs as desktop application or windows service

• Multi-instance capabilities (on various levels: SAF server, SAF modules)

• Remotely administratable

• Localizable

• Online help

• Modules have a defined programming environment providing most used functionalities (config, logging,...)

• Extendable through extensions (= plugins)

SAF Platform Architecture

• Client/Server architecture

• Using .Net 4.5

• SafAdministration.exe is used to configure and monitor the modules execution

• SafServer.exe executes the modules business logic

• SafImplementation.dll is a shared library for SafServer + SafAdministration

• SafInterop.dll is a shared library offering the SAF interfaces to SAF modules

• SafAdmin + SafServer communicate via network protocols with each other (.Net remoting)

• SafAdmin + SafServer are module agnostic, they know almost nothing about the module but just display pages provided by the module or execute methods provided by the module.

SafAdministration.exe

SafImplementation.dll

SafServer.exe

SafInterop.dll

SAF Modules & Extensions