X10 Controller Deployment Options

There are 2 deployment options being considered for dealing with the hardware interfaces:

One advantage to this option is that we can drop and restart the JVM that controls the hardware at will without having to bring the whole system down. Another advantage to this option would be the ability to split the physical machines to which the hardware is on vs the machine that the OR server is running on.

The advantage to this option is that it uses less resources and allows for direct API calls as opposed to communication over TCP/IP.

It is important to note that in either case, the arrow labeled API Calls, is a call to the same Java Interface which then allows for easy substitution of either option should we choose.