Infrastructure Module

Class model of the DCPS Infrastructure Module

The Infrastructure Module defines the abstract classes and the interfaces that are refined by the other modules. It also provides support for the two interaction styles (notification and wait based) with the middleware

The DCPS Infrastructure Module is comprised of the following classifiers:

• Entity
• DomainEntity
• QoS policy
• Listener
• Status
• Waitset
• Condition
• GuardCondition
• StatusCondition

Entity

• Entities are the basic building blocks of your Data Distribution Service:
• An Entity is the common parent for the most important DDS-elements:
  • DomainParticipant: Application connector to a Network Domain.
  • Topic: Defines the messages that will be transmitted across the network.
  • DataWriter: Accessor to write typed data (Topic) into a Domain.
  • DataReader: Accessor to read typed data (Topic) from a Domain.
  • Publisher: Aggregation of DataWriter objects, used to disseminate data.
  • Subscriber: Aggregation of DataReader objects, used to collect data.