Curtis Olson wrote: > > > Otherwise you are probably going to be wrestling with a complete > reachitecting of the entire FlightGear structure. Things like the > property system work great in a single thread application, but start > to break down when you split modules off into separate computers ... > how do you effeciently and robustly replicate the property system > across a distributed set of PC's, especially if you want any remote > module to be able to change any property at any time? Might be a fun > project for someone's phd thesis if they are specializing in > distributed systems. :-) > You could use an event distribution (Pub/Sub) paradigm based on something like the CORBA Notification Service (Event Service), the CORBA property service, the newer Data Distribution Service (DDS) or something like the High Level Architecture (HLA). A CORBA ORB TAO supports communication across shared memory or sockets depending on where the clients and services are running. I know that TAO is used quite a bit for real time control systems communication for the military.
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