Appendix A: DDS Family of Standards

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About the Family of Standards

The Data Distribution Service (DDS) Family of Standards covers a wide range of different aspects of DDS usage. The core set of standards considered essential to the use of DDS are referred to as Core. It is possible to use DDS without using a standard Application Programming Interface (API) but the API Standards allow for the portability of the code written using different vendors' software. For example, if the Java 5 API is used to develop software with a particular vendor, the software should move with only minor modifications to use another vendors product.

DDS Standards