Climbing Mountains

First Published Sunday, 1st July 2012 02:30 pm from Real-Time Innovations (RTI) : Jan Van Bruaene

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As a California company many of us love the

outdoors. Our computers are named after national or state parks:

Mammoth, Tioga, Lake Mead, Red Rock Canyon, El Capitan, Kirkwood

or Pipestone to name a few. (Although more recent machines have

been named after the href="http://www.cbs.com/shows/big_bang_theory">Big Bang

Theory: Bazinga!) Also, most of our releases are named

after big mountains: Sawtooth, Lassen, Mammoth, etc.

Last quarter we released RTI Connext

4.5f, internally named href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneto">Aneto

after the highest mountain in the Pyrenees and Spain's third

highest mountain. It was also a tribute to our new Spanish

Development Center in Granada.

proven to be rock solid (pun intended). In addition to the

introduction of the RTI Connext brand, Aneto brings a slew of bug

fixes, as well as new features:

• Easier C++ template programming by the use of traits in

  type definitions

• More flexibility in

  allow/deny interface specification for UDPv6 transport

• Interoperability between 64-bit and 32-bit applications

  using shared memory

• Expanded platform

  support: SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 (64-bit), RedHawk Linux

  6.0

• Overall improved stability and

  robustness

Aneto also introduces

experimental features. These are new ideas we are hatching and

would like to get your feedback on before we permanently add the

feature to the product or lock down the APIs. As you know

breaking backward compatibility is always painful. So we want to

get it right. Version 4.5f introduces XML-Based Application

Creation, which simplifies the development and programming of RTI

Connext applications by supporting the use of XML for complete

system definitions. Using this new experimental feature, we also

released href="http://community.rti.com/content/page/download-prototyper">RTI

Connext Prototyper on our href="http://community.rti.com/">community and research

portal. RTI Connext Prototyper is an experimental tool

to accelerate RTI Connext href="http://blogs.rti.com/2012/06/20/xml-based-aplication-configuration-and-prototyping/">application

development and scenario testing.

If you want to kick the tires, you can download a free

trial of RTI Connext at: href="http://www.rti.com/downloads/connext.html">http://www.rti.com/downloads/connext.html.

We're already in full ascent of our href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pine_Mountain">next

big mountain. More on that in a few months.

(Aneto picture: href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aneto_01.jpg">Wikipedia)