Communication system of an automation equipment based on the soap protocol

A communication process on an IP network between an automation equipment running a program to provide automatic control functions and a remote device running a computer program or group of computer programs, the purpose of the communication process being to provide the remote device with supervision, display, control, configuration or programming functions of the automation equipment, the communication process is based on a communications system based on the SOAP protocol and comprising;

• running a computer application in the remote device or in another remote device;
• sending from the application a read request on the IP network in order to receive, in a response, a service description document,
• developing, manually or automatically, by means of the service description document, all or part of a WEB client application and/or a WEB server application in the remote device so as to be able to communicate with a WEB service and/or a WEB client of the automation equipment respectively,
• communicating between a WEB client application and/or a WEB server application of the remote device and a WEB service and/or a WEB client of the automation equipment on the IP network, by means of requests and responses complying with the SOAP protocol.