RTI Connector for JavaScript

RTI® Connext® DDS is a connectivity software framework for integrating data sources of all types. At its core is the world's leading ultra-high performance, distributed networking databus.

RTI Connector provides a quick and easy way to write applications that publish and subscribe to the RTI Connext DDS databus in JavaScript and other languages.

Documentation

To get started and learn more about RTI Connector for JavaScript see the documentation here.

Examples

The examples/nodejs directory provides several examples:

• simple shows how to create basic publisher and subscriber applications
• In transformation, an application reads, transforms and publishes back the data
• web_http shows how an HTTP client can request DDS data using REST
• web_socket shows how to push DDS data to a browser through socket.io

Dependencies

RTI Connector for JavaScript has the following dependencies, which are also listed in package.json:

• koffi: used for loading and calling dynamic libraries using pure JavaScript
• events: used for the 'EventEmitter' (legacy implementation of RTI Connector)

Additionally to run the web_socket example, socket.io and OpenLayers are required.

Additional dependencies are required to run the unit tests and some of the examples. Please see the README files in the appropriate directory.

C/C++ compiler dependency

The dependency ref is shipped as source code and requires a C++11 compiler.

License

RTI Connector for JavaScript is part of the Connext Professional Package. If you have a valid license for the RTI Connext Professional Package, such license shall govern your use of RTI Connector for JavaScript. All other use of this software shall be governed solely by the terms of RTI’s Software License for Non-Commercial Use #4040.