Platform common services

Platform Common Services (PCS)—formerly the AVEVA Service Bus (ASB)—is a framework that hosts services based on general principles of a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

• SOA provides a mesh of interoperable services that can be used within a single system or extended to external systems based on an established trust relationship between the systems.

• SOA also generally provides a way for services to discover other available SOA-based services.

  PCS components are installed with Application Server as part of the System Platform installation. PCS functionality appears as menu items in the IDE.

  PCS components include a set of core runtime services, a catalog of user-configurable services, and a scheme that enables connectivity, interoperability and exchange of data among the services as well as with internal and external applications