Moxa DA-681-I-DP-LX [6/47] Software specifications

DA-681 Series WinCE User’s Manual Introduction

Software Specifications

The DA-681-CE embedded computer provides the following common, popular application

development features, networking/communications capabilities and supporting services/daemons

to make the Windows CE environment into an easy and convenient programming tool. The

software features of the DA-681-CE embedded computer are listed below:

Application Development Environment

y Microsoft .Net Compact Framework 2.0—Microsoft .NET CF is a software package

main features of .Net CF is the use of XML Web services, which allow small, discrete,

building-block applications to connect to each other and to other, larger applications over the

Internet. Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework allow developers

to develop XML Web services quickly, and integrate them easily with other applications.

y C/C++ Programming Languages—You can use the eVC4++ or Visual Studio 2005 to

develop C/C++ programs.

y COM and DCOM—The Component Object Model (COM) is a platform-independent,

object-oriented system for creating binary software components that can interact with other

COM-based components in the same process space, in other processes, or on remote devices.

y Message Queuing (MSMQ) —The Message Queuing (MSMQ) implementation makes it

possible for applications to communicate with other applications across networks and systems

that might be temporarily offline.

y SOAP Toolkit—The client-side SOAP Toolkit functionality in Microsoft Windows CE allows

an application to invoke Web service operations while the server-side functionality maps

invoked Web service operations to Component Object Model (COM) object method calls.

y XML—Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the universal format for data on the Web.

XML allows developers to describe and deliver rich, structured data from any application in a

standard, consistent way. XML does not replace HTML, but is a complementary format.

Networking and Communication Capabilities

y Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)—Monitors remote connections to the

network.

y Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Client—Provides support for synchronizing the

device’s system time with an SNTP server, and supports Daylight Saving Time.

y Serial Communications—Includes a special driver for Moxa serial ports.

y Network Utilities (IpConfig, Ping, Route)—Utilities for troubleshooting various network

problems.

y TCP/IP—Includes IP, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), Internet Control Message Protocol

(ICMP), Internet Group Membership Protocol (IGMP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP),

User Datagram Protocol (UDP), name resolution and registration, DNS Client, and DHCP.

y Dial-up Networking—Consists of RAS client API and the Point to Point Protocol (PPP).

RAS and PPP support Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) and RAS scripting

y PPPoE—Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) provides the ability to connect a

network of hosts, over a simple bridging access device, to a Remote Access Concentrator.

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