Migration Support

A migration cookbook has been delivered by the Global CAPE-OPEN project to assist with migration of legacy software to the CO standard. It addresses migration issues, strategies, methods and tools as well as experiences.
Currently, two Migrations wizards are available that can be used for Unit Operation and Property Package component development. The Unit Operation Wizard is implemented as a plug-in for Visual Basic 6.0 and guide a developer on the steps to be taken towards producing a CAPE-OPEN compliant software component. More...

CO Tester 

The CO Tester checks the basic conformity with CAPE-OPEN standards of a component implementing, at this stage, either the UNIT or the THRM interface sets as defined in the standards. The CO Tester acts as a basic simulation environment where software components can be plugged in. It has been designed to automatically carry out a number of testing scenarios. The CO Tester needs only to be downloaded (free of charge) and installed (currently, only a Windows executable is available). It comes with a help functionality explaining how to use the tool and its various features. More...

COM-CORBA Bridging

As the CAPE-OPEN standard supports two implementation models one based on COM the other based on CORBA it is desireable to have a technology allowing the user to combine components implenented using COM or CORBA. As the two standards are not compatible a software tool is needed that establishes a platform for middleware interoperability. More...