This document provides a brief description of the main components building the ONVIF management system.

System Components

• Device Access (DA) Module - The DA module enables the user to define a set of devices that can be managed by Device Access. For full documentation, refer to the Module Overview.
• ONVIF DA Adapter - Provides control over the ONVIF devices through the Device Access Items API. The ONVIF Discovery functionality is represent with a com.prosyst.mbs.services.onvif.da.items.OnvifDiscovery item, while registered ONVIF devices in the system are represented with a com.prosyst.mbs.services.da.Device item (more information can be found in the DA items API).
• ONVIF DA Items Providers - Additional providers which can be installed in order to customize the way ONVIF services functionalities are represented in the Device Access.
• ONVIF Java Driver API - Provides interfaces to communicate with video cameras. More information can be see in the Java API page.
• XML Webservices - Provide a way to describe their interfaces in enough detail to allow a user to build a client application to talk to them using the SOAP protocol. More information can be found on Microsoft's official XML Web Services page.
• SOAP Messages - A messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks. More information can be read on this page.
• HTTP Requests - Requests over the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. More information can be found on the official HTTP documentation.
• OSGi Framework - The framework implementation of the OSGi Runtime.