Adding a new device....How To?

Hi Jeff -

I'm helping a friend of mine who is doing some research using OpenICE. They want to use a medical monitor which is not yet supported. I haven't yet dived into the code, so I was wondering about the architecture for the device adapter serial driver. Is it straight hard coded parsing the input and producing output, or is there a framework for doing things like

• identifying common message types for the same device type
• supplying the message header/trailer framework, and methods to fill in the particulars?
• Also perhaps identifying common workflows (session, login, security, etc) and creating plugins which implement the workflows, or customize them?

Best Regards,

Paul