METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED INSPECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF ATTRIBUTES OF A WORKPIECE

A generic, scalable consumer subsystem/producer subsystem interface controller for exchanging data between at least one producer subsystem configured to produce a set of services characterized in a producer generated data set, and at least on consumer subsystem configured to consume the set of services, including an object-oriented producer application program interface configured for use on a multi-threaded, client-server operating system, wherein producer routines are configured to: initialize producer server objects maid producer client objects; receive requests for data from a consumer subsystem via the producer client objects; send acknowledgments to a consumer subsystem in response to requests from the consumer subsystem via the producer server objects; send data to a consumer subsystem in response to requests from the consumer subsystem via the producer server objects; and wherein consumer routines are configured to: initialize consumer server objects and consumer client objects; send requests for data to a producer subsystem via the consumer server objects; receive acknowledgments from a producer subsystem in response to requests from the producer subsystem via the consumer client objects; and, receive data from a producer subsystem in response to requests from the producer subsystem via the consumer client objects.