[jModbus-devel] A question

[Dieter W. <wi...@oe...>]

Kelvin,

I have got an important question. I took a more in depth look into serial communication matters, and I wonder if it makes sense to pack up "all-in-one".

A bridge between serial cabling and ethernet is one specific case where it is necessary, but the question is if it is not possible to come up with another construct that solves the same problem. Specifically if it isn't much better to decouple such a construct due to cycling etc. and have the 
serial and the ethernet side running in seperate processes.

I just want to propose this question, because we had a lot of discussions on issues that would have been more clear with only one specific flavor in mind.
Also we are at the right decision point, as we just started looking more in depth into serial communication.
As a matter of fact there might be not enough share in behaviour and handling to keep a medium path that considers and satisfies design, resource and behaviour issues.

What do you think?

Regards,
Dieter

PS: I do not want to express that it is impossible, I just like cross thinking and taking steps back and considering if what is done is really a good thing to do.