The Advosol OPC UA Experimental Server bases on the Beta version of the OPC Foundation OPC UA SDK and is intended to give the opportunity to experiment with OPC UA at an early stage. This server is not to be used in commercial products. The UA specification is not yet released and the SDK is not yet fully implemented and tested.

The Advosol UA Server uses the same device handling plug-in .NET assembly as the Advosol OPC DA .NET Server Toolkit and the Advosol XML DA Server Toolkit. Users of these toolkits can experiment with OPC UA without having to develop any code. The user developed DA server plug-in DLLs can use these .NET assemblies with the UA server.

The UA server is implemented as a self hosted .NET3.5 WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) application and is provided with:

• A functional UA server with a device simulation plug-in DLL
• A UA Test Client Windows application.

Users that want to customize the UA server and didn't yet use the Advosol DA .NET server toolkits need to download the free OPC DA .NET Server Toolkit evaluation. The DA server plug-in assemblies developed with this toolkit can be used with the UA server.
Required is Visual Studio 2005 or 2008.