Unfortunately my reading of the OFTP adapter seems to say that it wont work for my situation.
Ive read the socket integration in a UDF blog before and whilst its works for their particular use case it wont work for mine..
I need to maintain a persistent connection to the socket servers waiting for data to come through, these servers will be online constantly and be pushing data to the connected clients (in PI hopefully). Like a simple 1 way chat server ....
To clarrify....
I want to connect to several socket servers from PI and constantly wait for data to be "advertised" by them. then put the data in the stream into integration. There wll most likely be data coming from the servers every couple of seconds. So i need PI to bind the socket and just wait for information to come down the line. This is a real time/live event based integration.
It maybe Im missing some key peice of information but when working through this before with a Java desktop application, I started my client - connected to the server and then sat there watching data dribble through and display on my screen (constantly)...