What are people using as a modern day replacement for wwClient?

As far as I know WWClient ended life at 7,11,0,0306 with a limitation on the item name that could be advised. It can be worked around by configuring a device item with the long name as the item reference, but who loves doing that each time? Just wondered what everyone was using these days. If the source were available, I'd.....

0 RAINER CARLTON DSOUZA 11 days ago

Hey, i would like to know what you are using WWClient for ? I use the free Intouch Dev environment for this now but would like a lite version of it
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0 Jakob Drescher 10 days ago

To verify resulting references, I use the IO Device and Mapping tools in the IDE.
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0 rickard.norin 4 days ago

Hi,

The departure of wwClient did leave a gap, and we are (finally) considering how to address that. We want to provide direct feedback on connection state as well as easy access to validation tools for IO references. Some of this may start to appear in releases during 2025.

I commonly see people using an OPC Client as substitute for wwClient but that has its own challenges of course.
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