The IFW HL Core Package provides some common utilities of general interest to the other ICW components and application development in general.It provides the following features:

• Data Interface Dictionary Tools to handle Dictionaries, used to define the keywords, written in the FITS headers of output data products.
• FITS Handling Tools: Convenience functions to faciliate generation of FITS files, driven by DIDs.
• Common Python Utilities: Minor Python convenience utilities and a state machine (SCXML) driven OPC UA server tool kit and other OPC UA tools.
• STOO: Python client interface tool (library and shell tool) and tools for the application life-cycle management.
• Common CPP Utilties: Provides handling of the CII Configuration Service based application configurations and an OLDB interface tool (BAT) and some common CPP convenience utilities.