The Federate ToolKit (FTK) Module
[Core MSF]

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Detailed Description

Main Page for the Federate ToolKit (FTK)

Introduction

This package is designed to help developers of MSF components integrate their applications with the High Level Architecture (HLA) framework.

In the HLA vocabulary, an application participating in the simulation is called a federate, and the federation is composed of all the federates connected to the simulation. Federates exchange messages (interactions) and data (objects) using the Run-Time Infrastructure (RTI).

The FTK provides MSF developers with:

• a wrapper around some basic methods of the the RTI (like connect, leave, etc) with a simlified interface: the RTI-Federate Interface (RFI)

• facilities to build the Local RTI Component (LRC):
  • manages Object Classes (HLAObjectClass) and Interaction Classes (HLAInteractionClass)

  • manages the publish / subscribe scheme for each Object/Interaction class

  • manages the class, attribute, and parameter handles

  • manages the local representation of Object Instances in the simulation (HLAObjectInstance): maintain a list of objects and handles and provide methods (update, reflect, etc.)

  • provides methods to send and receive Interactions (HLAInteractionMessage)

• a generic Federate Ambassador (FTKFederateAmbassador) which handles most of the required methods to have a well behaved federate

This Structure is used by the SyncStatus class. It contains the synchronization flags.

Classes
class	AttributeClass
class	ClassContainer
class	ComFactory
class	DiscoverPolicy
class	FTKFederateAmbassador
class	GenericClass
class	GenericClient< T >
class	GenericObjShell
class	HLAInteractionClass
class	HLAInteractionMessage
class	HLAObjectClass
class	HLAObjectInstance
class	InstanceClient
class	InteractionRootInteraction
class	MessageClient
class	MethodInteraction
class	MethodMessage
class	ObjectRootObjClass
class	ReturnValueInstance
class	ReturnValueObjClass
class	RFI
struct	SaveFlag
	This structure is used by the SaveStatus class. It contains save status flags. More...
struct	SyncFlag
class	SyncStatus
class	TimeManager
class	TObjShell< T >
Typedefs
typedef map< string, SyncFlag >	SYNC_POINT_MAP
typedef map< string, SyncFlag >::iterator	SYNC_POINT_ITR

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Typedef Documentation

typedef map<string, SyncFlag> SYNC_POINT_MAP

typedef map<string, SyncFlag>::iterator SYNC_POINT_ITR

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