Publish-Subscribe Interoperability Soars with CoreDX

PRLog (Press Release) - Jul 17, 2009 -
The Second DDS Interoperability Demonstration, held during the recent OMG Workshop in Washington DC, showcased new demonstrations of DDS interoperability between RTI and Twin Oaks Computing.  Twin Oaks featured its latest version of CoreDX, which, in addition to Dynamic Discovery, Quality-of-Service matching, best-effort and reliable communications, included new support for time and content based filtering.  Furthermore, Twin Oaks demonstrated CoreDX interoperability on the tiny Gumstix (http://www.gumstix.com) computing platform.  

"Object Management Group (OMG) Data-Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems (DDS) is the first open international publish-subscribe middleware standard", said Don Anderson, EVP of Engineering Services at Gumstix, Inc. "It makes sense for companies like Twin Oaks to support Gumstix' open-source strategy by developing their 3rd party software based on an open, international standard".

The inclusion of the Gumstix platform in the demonstration emphasizes the commitment of Twin Oaks to support embedded and resource constrained environments.  These advanced processing platforms weigh a mere 8 grams and provide significant potential for challenging applications such as micro unmanned vehicles. The demonstration took place at the OMG Workshop (http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/GOV-WS/rte/Program.htm) held in Arlington, VA USA during the week of July 13.

The addition of the DDS Interoperability wire protocol to the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) provides system developers with a new tool to meet Open Architecture requirements.  With a standardized API and run-time interoperability, the difficult task of delivering a fully interoperable open system has been solved.

DDS has been identified as a high-performance data communications middleware component that achieves Open System goals.  It provides for loosely coupled applications, with dynamic discovery, platform independence, low-latency, high-throughput, message-oriented data communications that can be tailored by a robust set of Quality-of-Service attributes.  On-the-wire interoperability is the final crucial component that opens up a world of publish-subscribe applications.

Twin Oaks Computing, Inc is pleased to announce advanced support for RTPS in CoreDX v2.1 (http://www.twinoakscomputing.com/coredx.php).  Our recently demonstrated capabilities place CoreDX in the forefront of high-performance, interoperable publish-subscribe technologies.  With a small library footprint, measured in Kbytes not Mbytes, CoreDX is perfectly suited to support space and resource constrained applications.

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