====== Appendix A: DDS Family of Standards ======
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===== About the Family of Standards =====
The [[ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:d:data_distribution_service_dds]] Family of Standards covers a wide range of different aspects of DDS usage. The core set of standards considered essential to the use of DDS are referred to as //Core//. It is possible to use DDS without using a standard Application Programming Interface [[ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:a:api|(API)]] but the API Standards allow for the [[ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:p:portability|portability]] of the code written using different vendors' software. For example, if the Java 5 API is used to develop software with a particular vendor, the software should move with only minor modifications to use another vendors product.

===== DDS Standards =====

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