Utgard is a vendor-independent

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OPC client

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that supports the OPC

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and can be used independently from other

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projects. Utgard is used in Eclipse SCADA together with Atlantis to communicate with systems of other vendors over the OPC DA 2.0 interface. The project is

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, written in pure Java and is distributed under the LGPL. Utgard eliminates the need for additional DLLs/

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libraries. Currently, an

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is required to communicate with Utgard.

References

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