Re: [SWMP] Kicking things off

Braden McDaniel wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:20 -0700, Alan Hudson wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Keep in mind that TENA is a software product whereas HLA is a spec. TENA
> makes no pretense to vendor-independence.
> 
> As I mentioned, TENA is built on top of CORBA. The DMSO RTI (an HLA
> implementation) was built on CORBA, too. But it was implementing a
> abstraction independent of CORBA (or much else); as such, the fact that
> it was using CORBA under the hood was not terribly relevant.
> 
> Since TENA is a particular implementation that implements an abstraction
> *in terms of* CORBA, you can go to the (generated) CORBA IDL files for
> ground truth. Though in practice, I cannot imagine someone wanting to
> *talk* to TENA apps via the TENA mechanisms without themselves *being* a
> TENA app.
> 
> [I don't think this is particularly topical to the SWMP list. If you'd
> like to know more about TENA, we should probably continue this
> off-list.]

No problem.  I've just be wrestling with where to go past HLA.  Jay 
brought up HLA as a possible solution to this space.  I thought TENA was 
following the same path so I blasted both with the same barrel.  Sounds 
like TENA is not trying to solve the same standardization problem.

-- 
Alan Hudson

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