return to Front Matter

1. Intro to the document (audience, what it is, what it is not)
2. Intro to DDS

   • a. History
   • b. What is the Problem it solves?
   • c. Aren’t there other solutions?
   • d. What is Realtime?
   • e. How fast is fast?
   • f. How Scalable is DDS?
   • g. Is it Portable?
   • h. Is there a Standard?
3. Portability

   • a. What is Portability
   • b. API
   • c. Interface Definition Language (IDL)
   • d. Procedural Languages (C/C++, Java, C#)
   • e. Protocol - is different (see next section)
   • f. Platform Portability - Computer, server, phone adrino, etc
4. Interoperability

   • a. What is Interoperability?
   • b. Protocol
   • c. Between DDS Products
   • d. Bridges to other Messaging Products
   • e. Security
5. Maintainability

   • a. X-Types
6. Integration

   • a. SOSA/MOSA
   • b. Sensor Open System Architecture
   • c. Modular Open System Architecture (or approach)
   • d. NGVA
7. Basic Architecture of DDS

   • a. What is Architecture
   • b. Distributed
   • c. Data Centric
   • d. Publish – Subscribe
8. Couldn’t I implement it myself?

   • a. Do you build infrastructure or do you want to build your business
9. What is a Topic?

   • a. Name
   • b. datastructure
   • c. Set of Quality of Service (QoS) Policy
   • d. Introduce Domain (Topics belong to the Domain)
   • e. (clarify with Java Message Queue)
10. How to Define a Structure

    • a. IDL
    • b. Simple Structure
    • c. Complex Structures
    • d. Converting from IDL to other Procedural Languages
    • e. Data Marshalling
    • f. Byte order: Big/Little Endian
    • g. Word size: 32-bit/64-bit
    • h. X-Types
11. How to Define QoS

    • a. What is QoS?
    • b. Do I need all of them?
    • c. Useful Subsets of QoS
12. Readers and Writers

    • a. What is a Writer?
    • b. What is a Reader?
    • c. Hello World Example
13. Shapes Demo

    • a. Where I get the Demo?
    • b. Can I download multiple vendor Shapes Readers/Writers? (links)
14. Medical Device Example

XIV. Glossary