.. _`Preface`:

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Preface
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About the Deployment Guide
**************************

The *OpenSplice Deployment Guide* is intended to provide a complete
reference on how to configure the OpenSplice service and tune it as required.

The *Deployment Guide* is included with the OpenSplice Documentation Set.

The *Deployment Guide* is intended to be used after reading and following the
instructions in the *OpenSplice Getting Started Guide*.

Intended Audience
*****************

The *Deployment Guide* is intended to be used by anyone who wishes to use and
configure OpenSplice.

Organisation
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The :ref:`Overview <Overview>` gives a general description of the
OpenSplice architecture.

This is followed by :ref:`Service Descriptions <Service Descriptions>`, which
explain how OpenSplice provides integration of real-time DDS and the
non-/near-real-time enterprise DBMS domains.

The :ref:`Tools <Tools>` section introduces the OpenSplice system management tools.

Full details of the configuration elements and attributes of all
OpenSplice services are given in the :ref:`Configuration <Configuration>`
section.


Conventions
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The icons shown below are used in ZettaScale product documentation
to help readers to quickly identify information relevant to their
specific use of OpenSplice.


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 *Icon*    *Meaning*
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 |caution| Item of special significance or where caution needs to be taken.
 |info|    Item contains helpful hint or special information.
 |windows| Information applies to Windows (*e.g.* XP, 2003, Windows 7) only.
 |unix|    Information applies to Unix-based systems (*e.g.* Solaris) only.
 |linux|   Information applies to Linux-based systems (*e.g.* Ubuntu) only.
 |c|       C language specific.
 |cpp|     C++ language specific.
 |csharp|  C# language specific.
 |java|    Java language specific.
 ========= ==================================================================




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