Hello all,

Below you will find the official release announcement for e-labcompany's LECIS Shell Suite V2.0.

Have a nice day,

Torsten Staab
LECIS Webmaster (www.lecis.org)
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30th October 2002

The Electric Laboratory Company Ltd is pleased to announce the release of
version 2.0 of its LECIS Shell Suite. This new version integrates the OMG
LECIS COBRA standard (with DCOM) into our existing established ASTM LECIS
product set.
The Run-Time Edition of the e-labcompany LECIS Shell Suite applications
allows any of the four flavours of LECIS interface to be used. All new
versions present the same Microsoft COM/ActiveX interfaces for the SLM, TSC
and SCD modules.
The available external interfaces are:
- OMG LECIS CORBA interface
- OMG LECIS DCOM interface
- ASTM LECIS (Incorporates compatibility with OMG LECIS)
- ASTM LECIS (Pfizer LIG 2.05 compatible, but is not compatible with the
SCD)
Notable features include:
OMG LECIS Shell Suite V1.0 (CORBA interface)
- OMG LECIS IDL compliant.
- OMG LECIS DCD and SCD compliant.
- Ideal for controlling devices implemented on different hardware or
software platforms.
OMG LECIS Shell Suite V1.0 (DCOM interface)
- DCOM interface generated from the OMG LECIS IDL.
- OMG LECIS DCD and SCD compliant.
- Ideal for controlling devices implemented on Microsoft Windows platforms.
ASTM LECIS Shell Suite V2.0
- Improved ASTM LECIS compliance.
(See:
http://www.e-labcompany.co.uk/products/lecis.shell/LECISComplianceStatement.
2.0.0.pdf)
- OMG LECIS DCD and SCD compliant.
- Ideal for controlling devices over the internet (TCP/IP message based).
ASTM LECIS Shell Suite V1.2
- Improved ASTM LECIS and LECIS Implementers' Guide 2.05 compliance.
(See:
http://www.e-labcompany.co.uk/products/lecis.shell/LECISComplianceStatement1
.2.0.pdf)
- Support for DCD defined Events, Resources and System Variables.
- Improved session disconnect/connect handling through communications loss.
- Performance enhancements.
All products support for:
- XML DCD and SCD validation.
- Message logging to the Windows NT Event log.
The LECIS Shell Suite software provides security and auditing to support
validation.