18. The system of claim 10 , wherein the specific adaptor class further comprises a periodic communication or an aperiodic communication adaptor class.
10. A system comprising: one or more computers; and a computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more computers having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computers, causes the one or more computers to perform operations comprising: receiving, at an integration layer, a connection request from an auto-id component to be connected to an auto-id node, the connection request specifying one or more communication parameters of the auto-id component, instantiating a generic adaptor class for effecting communication between the auto-id node and the auto-id component, the generic adaptor implementing functionality common to multiple different, specific adaptor classes stored in a class repository of the integration layer, instantiating a generic communicator class for effecting a data transport aspect of the communication between the auto-id node and the auto-id component, the generic communicator class implementing functionality common to multiple different, specific communicator classes stored in the class repository, and the generic communicator class being a component of the generic adaptor class, instantiating a generic converter class for effecting a data conversion aspect of the communication between the auto-id node and the auto-id component, the generic converter class implementing functionality common to multiple different, specific converter classes stored in the class repository, and the generic converter class being a component of the generic adaptor class, identifying, from among the multiple different adaptor, communicator, and converter classes stored in the class repository, a specific adaptor, a specific communicator class, and a specific converter class, respectively, based on the specified communication parameters, instantiating the identified specific adaptor, communicator, and converter classes, adding the identified specific adaptor, communicator class, and converter classes to an instance list, and effecting the communication between the auto-id component and the auto-id node using the instantiated generic adaptor, communicator, and converter classes and the instantiated specific adaptor, communicator, and converter classes.