Anatomy of an Open Source RTI Presentation

Presentation on Portico RTI structure

1. Anatomy of an
Open Source RTI
Tim Pokorny
Calytrix Technologies
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2. Why Bother with
Open Source?
Freedom to Use
Freedom to Modify
Freedom to Redistribute
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3. Why Not to Bother
with Open Source
Open source is not zero-cost
Useability
Documentation
Support
License Concerns
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4. Friendly Licensing
Cross Platform
Easy to Use
Modular and Flexible
Extensible
Support
Growing HLA Spec Coverage
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5. The Technical Bit
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6. The Portico
Architecture
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7. Messages
Event Data
Everything is a Message
Basic Communication Unit
Packaged in Contexts
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8. Message Handlers
Consumes Messages
Performs Some Action
Generates New Messages
Message Chains
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9. Message Sinks
Message Processing
Superstructure
Handler Association
Pre-/Post-processing
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11. Extending Portico
Communications Bindings
Extend or Alter Behaviour
Change Handlers
Write new Handlers
Embed Other Software
Bootstraps
Embed Portico in Other Software
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12. Deployment
Drag and Drop
Single File
Key/Value Configuration
No Path Editing
No Config File Editing
No Convoluted Process
Bad
Bad
Bad
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13. Conclusions
Supports New Approaches
Open, Flexible, Extensible
Open Source is Good
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14. Questions?
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