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KNetOPC: OPC-UA connector for Apache Kafka Connect

KNetOPC is an OPC-UA connector for Apache Kafka Connect.

Summary

Runtime engine

KNetOPC uses KNet, and indeed JCOBridge with its features, to obtain many benefits:

  • Cyber-security:
    • JVM and CLR, or CoreCLR, runs in the same process, but are insulated from each other;
    • JCOBridge does not make any code injection into JVM;
    • JCOBridge does not use any other communication mechanism than JNI;
    • .NET (CLR) inherently inherits the cyber-security levels of running JVM;
  • Direct access the JVM from any .NET application:
    • Any Java/Scala/Kotlin/... class can be directly managed;
    • No need to learn new APIs: we try to expose the same APIs in C# style;
    • No extra validation cycle on protocol and functionality: bug fix, improvements, new features are immediately available;
    • Documentation is shared;
  • Dynamic code: it helps to write a Java/Scala/Kotlin/etc seamless language code directly inside a standard .NET application written in C#/VB.NET: look at this simple example and JNet APIs extensibility.

JCOBridge resources

Have a look at the following JCOBridge resources:

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