Reference Implementation
Reference Implementation Details
The reference implementation of a connector is provided by Eclipse Tractus-X from the repository tractusx-edc.
The connector is a derived product from the Eclipse Dataspace Components Connector implementation. In Eclipse Tractus-X the base connector is used and extended for use in a dataspace as defined in this KIT. In addition the repository defines runtimes that provide a ready-to-deploy product provided as docker images on docker hub. This includes a full-fledged control and data plane setup using a database and a vault for storage of relevant data as well as a test setup with in-memory storage facilities.
All components from upstream and Tractus-X are available in maven central as packages to be used in own runtimes, if needed.
Resources
- Eclipse Dataspace Components Website
- The website hosts relevant documentation on the project.
- Tractus-X Connector Releases showing all available releases with release notes and links to test reports
- Tractus-X Connector Readme
- Tractus-X Connector Management API Walkthrough, which describes how to interact with a connector from an app perspective controlling the interactions with the connector on provider and consumer side.
- Tractus-X Connector Migration Guides which describes for each version update what to adapt to meet the requirements of the new version.
- Tractus-X Connector OpenApi-Hub
- Tractus-X Connector Developer Documentation containing some concept documentation and decision records
- Tractus-X BPN-DID resolution service main repository
- Tractus-X BDRS OpenApi-Hub
Notice
This work is licensed under the CC-BY-4.0.
- SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Cofinity-X GmbH
- Source URL: https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/eclipse-tractusx.github.io/docs-kits/kits/connector-kit/software-development-view/reference-impl.md