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CHAPTER
2
Configuring the RFID Event
Manager
This chapter describes the necessary concepts and procedures for configuring the
RFID Event Manager using the RFID Configuration Manager tool.
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ Event Manager Concepts
■ RFID Configuration Manager Overview
■ Using the RFID Configuration Manager
■ Managing Device Profiles
■ RFID Event Manager Component Overview
Event Manager Concepts
The RFID Event Manager consists of a Control Station and one or more Execution
Agents as described in the Sun Java System RFID Software 3.0 Installation Guide. Each
Execution Agent is composed of an adapter that passes information into one or more
filters or connectors. The filters, in turn, pass information into one or more
connectors. This chain of processes constitutes a federation of services, known as
Business Processing Semantics (BPS), where each of the services contains one or more
components linked together to process events. Using the RFID Configuration
Manager, you implement a BPS by creating a configuration object.
An RFID reader is a piece of hardware that communicates with RFID tags using a
microwave radio frequency. The RFID Reader communicates with a device-specific
adapter through a proprietary protocol. The device adapter is a driver-like piece of
Java code that interfaces to the actual RFID reader device. The supported device
adapters are listed in
TABLE 2-3. Device profiles for the supported adapters are
provided with the RFID Software.
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