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Features

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Christof Roduner

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2007-06-03

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Features

The following outlines the features available in Fosstrak's EPCIS Repository

implementation and in its Capture and Query Clients.

* Fosstrak EPCIS Modules

The Fosstrak EPCIS Project comprises three separate modules:

* an EPCIS Repository implementation

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* an interactive EPCIS Capture Client

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* an interactive EPCIS Query Client

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The modules implement the EPC Information Services (EPCIS) Specification

defined by EPCglobal and its members.

* Fosstrak EPCIS Repository Features

Our implementation features the EPCIS capture interface and the EPCIS

query interface (including the query control interface and the query callback

interface) as defined by EPCglobal. We provide an HTTP binding for the capture interface and a SOAP

binding for the query interface. Our implementation requires Java 1.5 (or

higher) and a MySQL database (version 5.0.15 or higher) as a storage engine.

* Fosstrak EPCIS Capture and Query Client Features

The Fosstrak EPCIS Capture and Query Clients provide an intuitive graphical

user interface to store EPCIS events to and retrieve EPCIS events from an EPCIS

Repository. They can be used to interactively test and explore any EPCIS

Repository (based on Fosstrak or third-party products) supporting the HTTP binding

for the capture cnterface and the SOAP binding for the query interface.

The following two screenshots show the features available in our EPCIS Capture

and Query Clients:

[images/epcis_capture_gui.png] Fosstrak EPCIS Capture Client

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[images/epcis_query_gui.png] Fosstrak EPCIS Query Client

* Detailed Feature List

Fosstrak EPCIS supports all mandatory and some optional features of EPCglobal's

EPC Information Services (EPCIS) Specification, Version 1.0. The following

table gives an overview of which features are supported and which are not.

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| <<Feature>> | <<Described in>> | <<Supported in>> | <<Notes>> |

| | <<EPCIS Specification 1.0>> | <<Fosstrak EPCIS 0.3>> | |

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| Extension mechanism (e.g. new event fields) | Sect. 6.3 | X | {{{a1}\[1\]}}

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| Hierarchical vocabularies (e.g. <<<urn:epc:id:sgtin:123.*>>>) | Sect. 6.5 | X |

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| Core event types (EventData & MasterData) | Sect. 7.2 | X | {{{a2}\[2\]}}

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| Core capture operations (capture interface) | Sect. 8.1 | X |

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| Authentication & authorization for capture operations | Sect. 8.1.1 | - | {{{a5}\[5\]}}

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| Core query operations (query control & query callback interface) | Sect. 8.2 | X | {{{a3}\[3\]}}

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| Authentication & authorization for query operations | Sect. 8.2.1 | - | {{{a5}\[5\]}}

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| Triggered and scheduled queries | Sect. 8.2.5 | X |

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| Error Conditions (exceptions) | Sect. 8.2.6 | X | {{{a4}\[4\]}}

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| Predefined queries (SimpleEventQuery & SimpleMasterDataQuery) | Sect. 8.2.7 | X |

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| Message queue binding for capture operations module | Sect. 10.1 | - | {{{a5}\[5\]}}

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| HTTP binding for the capture operations module | Sect. 10.2 | X | {{{a5}\[5\]}}

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| SOAP over HTTP binding for query control interface | Sect. 11.2 | X | {{{a5}\[5\]}}

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| XML over AS2 binding for query control interface | Sect. 11.3 | - | {{{a5}\[5\]}}

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| XML over HTTP binding for query callback interface | Sect. 11.4.2 | X | {{{a5}\[5\]}}

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| XML over HTTPS binding for query callback interface | Sect. 11.4.3 | X | {{{a5}\[5\]}}

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

| XML over AS2 binding for query callback interface | Sect. 11.4.4 | - | {{{a5}\[5\]}}

*--------------+-----------------------------*----------------------*-----------*

\[{1}\] - no support for "new vocabulary type" extension

\[{2}\] - EPC syntax is not checked against Tag Data Standard 1.3

\[{3}\] - query paramter <<<orderBy>>> does not support ordering for event field extensions, parameters <<<EQATTR_fieldname_attrname>>> and <<<HASATTR_fieldname>>> do not support event field extensions

\[{4}\] - <<<SecurityException>>> is never thrown, <<<QueryTooComplexException>>> is thrown when query execution takes longer than a predefined threshold, <<<QueryTooLargeException>>> is thrown when a query returns more results than a predefined threshold

\[{5}\] - optional feature