This part of IEC 62541 defines the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA)Services. TheServicesdefined are the collection of abstract Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) that are
implemented by OPC UAServersand called by OPC UAClients. All interactions between
OPC UAClientsandServersoccur via theseServices. The definedServicesare considered
abstract because no particular RPC mechanism for implementation is defined in this
document. IEC 62541-6 specifies one or more concrete mappings supported for
implementation. For example, one mapping in IEC 62541-6 is to XML Web Services. In that
case theServicesdescribed in this document appear as the Web service methods in the
WSDL contract.
Not all OPC UAServerswill need to implement all of the defined Services. IEC 62541-7
defines theProfilesthat dictate which Services need to be implemented in order to be
compliant with a particularProfile.All current amendments available at time of purchase are included with the purchase of this document.