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.