Arrangements, storage mediums and methods for transmitting a non-proprietary language device description file associated with a field device using a web service

摘要

An arrangement, storage medium and method are provided to convert a particular proprietary language Device Description file and/or a particular Device Description language source code associated with a particular type of a field device into a particular non-proprietary language Device Description file, and to transmit the particular non-proprietary language Device Description file from a first processing system to a second processing system using a particular Web Service. For example, the particular non-proprietary language Device Description file can be a non-binary coded Device Description file, and the non-binary coded Device Description file can be an Extensible Mark-up Language Device Description file. Moreover, the second processing system can use Simple Object Access Protocol to request the particular Web Service used in the transmission of the Extensible Mark-up Language Device Description file.