Overview

ABConnect is a communications package that allows you to read and write data to Allen-Bradley SLC and Micrologix Programmable Controllers using the Java language.

Since Java is available on many platforms, this means you can run your application on your operating system of choice, whether it be Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, QNX, or any platform that supports Java, including many embedded systems.

The package is shipped with a Java-enabled web server for Windows-based PCs that can serve web pages including data scanned from the PLC using a simple extension to the HTML syntax. The same server can also be deployed on Linux, Unix, etc.

You can simply use the provided webserver to put your PLC on the web, or use the package as a scanner component within a Java application.