The paper explores the different Interoperability aspects of DDS, and  how this Interoperability may be used to reduce the cost and risk of your new or existing software project.

This paper explores the features of DDS as compared to other common communications technologies such as JMS, CORBA, and sockets; and examines the specific features of CoreDX DDS that make it feasible for resource constrained embedded systems where other DDS solutions may not fit.

This paper explores the features of Communications Middleware (including DDS) providing a foundation of the role of middleware in software development.

DDS is increasingly beiong adopted as the middleware and data-model of choice for vehicle integration and interoperability. Testament to that are the recent directives from the UK MOD (Def Stan 23-03) that standardize on DDS for the Land Data Model and the messaging integration, as well as the US OSD Unmanned Control Segment (UCS) architecture that also directs the use of DDS for Unmanned Vehicle integration.

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems position presentation for the OMG DDS Security Panel

Security requirements on DDS as perceived by Combat System applications

Presentation for OMG DDS Security Panel

Proposed RFP to add standard interoperable mechanisms to communicate data securely using DDS. The proposed standard would add several new capabilities to DDS:

Integration effort and risk grow dramatically with system and team size. Connecting large systems developed by independent teams at different times requires connecting multiple systems, thus creating a system of systems. Enterprise systems use a design called Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to effect this integration. However, the technologies used in the enterprise do not apply well to real-time systems; they cannot handle the strict delivery and timing requirements. So what IS Real-Time SOA?

 

This presentation provides an overview of the benefits and functionality of the DDS specification. It was given to a plenary session of the Robotics Task Force at the OMG technical meeting in Long Beach, CA.