Management of Distributed Measurement Systems Based on Abstract Client-Server Paradigms

This paper describes in detail a Java-based, clientserver architecture specifically conceived to allow a flexible control of remote devices. The main attributes of the proposed solution are portability and flexibility. The former feature is assured by the employment of the TCP/IP protocol suite and by the Java language properties. The latter is due to the high level of abstraction of the system implementation, that addresses multi-user issues and a wide range of possible applications with a high code reusability. In particular, the proposed architecture can be easily upgraded so as to fit different kinds of devices, by simply adding a limited amount of code on the server-side of the overall system.