OpenDDS is an open-source C++ implementation of the Object Management Group's specification "Data Distribution Service for Real-time Systems". Although OpenDDS is itself developed in C++, Java and JMS bindings are provided so that Java applications can use OpenDDS. OpenDDS also includes support for the DDS Security specification.
OpenDDS is built on the ACE abstraction layer to provide platform portability. OpenDDS also leverages capabilities of TAO, such as its IDL compiler and as the basis of the OpenDDS DCPS Information Repository (DCPSInfoRepo).
The primary development of OpenDDS was done by Object Computing, Incorporated in St. Louis and Phoenix. It is released under the same generous license terms as ACE, TAO and MPC. See the LICENSE file for details.
Table of Contents:
- Documentation
- Support
- Features
- Dependencies
- Supported Platforms
- Building and Installing
- Quick Start with Docker
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The OpenDDS Developer's Guide is freely downloadable at: http://download.objectcomputing.com/OpenDDS/
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The TAO Developer's Guide book set may also be purchased from https://objectcomputing.com/products/tao/tao-developers-guide
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A Doxygen for the latest release is available at http://download.opendds.org/doxygen/.
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For developers wanting to contribute to OpenDDS, please take the time to read the developer's guidelines.
Other documentation can be found in docs directory.
If you encounter any problems with this release please fill out the PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM file found in this directory and use it when posting to the mailing list or creating a GitHub Issue.
For commercial support please see http://opendds.org/support.html.
This release of OpenDDS is based on the DDS Specification formal/2015-04-10 (version 1.4). It features the following transport protocols:
- TCP/IP
- UDP/IP
- IP multicast
- RTPS over UDP/IP (unicast and multicast)
RTPS (Interoperability) features are based on the DDS-RTPS Specification formal/2014-09-01 (version 2.2). See the OpenDDS Developer's Guide and the file docs/design/RTPS for more details on RTPS.
See the Developer's Guide for information on OpenDDS compliance with the DDS specification. If you would like to contribute a feature or sponsor the developers to add a feature please see the Support section above for contact information.
For a complete detailed list of dependencies, see docs/dependencies.md.
OpenDDS requires TAO for both IDL compilation as well as interaction with the DCPSInfoRepo. If you will be using the "configure" script for OpenDDS (see the INSTALL.md file for details), you do not need to download TAO first -- the "configure" script will download it for you.
Use one of the following versions when building OpenDDS:
- OCI TAO 2.2a patch 15
- Available from:
- This version will be automatically downloaded by default when using the configure script.
- DOC Group TAO 2.5.1
- Available from:
- When using the configure script, this version can be downloaded using one
of these arguments:
--doc-groupfor the latest release--ace-github-latestto use the master branches of ACE_TAO and MPC as is
Perl is used for the configure script, running the automated tests and examples included in this source tree, and generating Makefiles or Visual Studio project files.
On Windows we recommend the use of ActiveState Perl.
Starting with OpenDDS 3.14, Google Test is required for OpenDDS tests. Tests
are built by default so that means Google Test is required unless --no-tests
is passed to configure.
This release of OpenDDS has been tested under the following platforms:
Linux family:
- Red Hat EL and CentOS 6.6 and 6.9, x86_64
- Red Hat EL and CentOS 7.2 and 7.3, x86_64
- Fedora 24 and 29, x86_64
- Debian 9.4, i686
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, x86_64
- openSUSE 42.1, and 42.2, x86_64
Windows family:
- Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit)
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
- Windows 10 (64-bit)
Others:
- macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)
Embedded/Mobile/IoT:
- LynxOS-178 (OpenDDS Safety Profile)
- VxWorks 6.9 and 7 (see below)
- Linux on Raspberry Pi
- Android
We have built OpenDDS for VxWorks 6.9 and 7 and have run basic system and performance tests (but not the entire regression test suite). Please contact sales@objectcomputing.com or opendds-main@lists.sourceforge.net for more information on support for ACE, TAO, and OpenDDS on VxWorks. OCI's packages for ACE, TAO, and OpenDDS can be obtained on the Wind River Marketplace.
This release of OpenDDS has been tested using the following compilers:
- Microsoft Visual C++ 9 with SP1 (Visual Studio 2008)
- Microsoft Visual C++ 10 with SP1 (Visual Studio 2010)
- Microsoft Visual C++ 11 (Visual Studio 2012) - Update 4
- Microsoft Visual C++ 12 (Visual Studio 2013) - Update 5
- Microsoft Visual C++ 14 (Visual Studio 2015) - Update 3
- Microsoft Visual C++ 14.1 (Visual Studio 2017) cl 19.12.25835
- gcc 4.4.7, 4.8, 4.9
- gcc 5.4
- gcc 6.2, 6.3
- gcc 7.2
- gcc 8.1, 8.2
- Clang 6.0 (llvm.org) and 9.0 (Apple)
For building and installation instructions see the INSTALL.md file in this directory.
Docker images containing a pre-built OpenDDS are available on
DockerHub. An image
corresponding to a particular release has a tag of the form release-DDS-X.xx,
e.g., release-DDS-3.12.
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Check for prerequisites
docker --version docker-compose --version -
Enter a container
docker run --rm -ti -v "$PWD:/opt/workspace" objectcomputing/opendds -
Copy the
Messengerdirectory which contains an example from the Developer's Guidecp -R /opt/OpenDDS/DevGuideExamples/DCPS/Messenger Messenger cd Messenger -
Configure and build the Messenger example
mwc.pl -type gnuace make -
Exit the container
exit -
Enter the
Messengerdirectorycd Messenger -
Create an
rtps.inifile to control discovery with the following content[common] DCPSGlobalTransportConfig=$file DCPSDefaultDiscovery=DEFAULT_RTPS [transport/the_rtps_transport] transport_type=rtps_udp -
Run the Messenger example with RTPS
docker-compose up -
Run the Messenger example with InfoRepo
docker-compose -f docker-compose-inforepo.yml up # Use Control-C to kill the InfoRepo process