This is great. Fo info, DDS is a standardized MOM middleware heavily used in industrial apps with multiple concrete implementations such as http://www.prismtech.com/opensplice. And one of these implementations will be the next backend of ROS and therefore needed in PhaROS. Thx Santiago!
#Luc 2014-12-02 0:44 GMT+01:00 Ben Coman <[email protected]>: > Santiago Bragagnolo wrote: > >> Hi guys, i am just releasing SimpleDDS. >> In order to connect into ROS world i had to implement a DDS support >> (Publisher/subscriber). >> For achieving this i did MetaDDS, a library that defines basic objects, >> announcements, event related mechanisms and data encoding formats, and on >> top of it SimpleDDS, which is ROS based. >> >> SimpleDDS Has a package of examples highly commented for learning how to >> use it. >> The comments are also in the Github wiki, as wiki pages: >> >> https://github.com/sbragagnolo/SimpleDDS/wiki >> >> Gofer it smalltalkhubUser: 'sbragagnolo' project: 'SimpleDDS'; >> configuration; loadVersion: #stable >> >> >> Here some links about >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pattern >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Distribution_Service >> >> >> Thats it. Enjoy. >> >> Santiago >> >> >> >> >> > I haven't heard of DDS, but this seems really significant! > > From wikipedia... "DDS addresses the needs of applications like financial > trading, air-traffic control, smart grid management, and other Big data > applications. The standard is used in applications such as smartphone > operating systems,[1] transportation systems and vehicles,[2] > software-defined radio, and by healthcare providers." > > This could be a nice lead into these application domains. > > If this got to a sufficient level of features, maybe Santiago could even > be sponsored to attend an interoperability meeting? "DDS vendors > participated in _Interoperability demonstrations_ at the Object Management > Group (OMG) Spring Technical Meeting.[7] During the demo, each vendor > publishes and subscribes to each other's topics using a test suite called > the Shapes Demo." Such might be a good place to network and demo general > use of Pharo. > > cheers -ben > >
