Vortex Gateway

Introduction

Vortex Gateway is an Apache Camel Component for DDS using OpenSplice DDS (community or commercial versions).

By leveraging Apache Camel, Vortex Gateway allows the integration of DDS-based systems with hundereds of transports or messaging technologies supported by Camel. A complete list of the components provided with Apache Camel is available here: http://camel.apache.org/components.html .

Prerequisites

Java

Apache Camel is a Java software. Please be sure to have a JDK installed (version 7 minimum).

OpenSplice DDS

OpenSplice DDS must be installed and available in your environement (i.e. its release.com must have been sourced). Note that Vortex Gateway supports any v5+ or v6+ version of OpenSplice DDS.

Apache Maven

Vortex Gateway is available on Maven Central repository

The examples we provide here are using Apache Maven. Please be sure to install it before compiling and running the examples.

Usage

DDS Camel Component usage

The complete documentation of the camel-ospl component (including all the endpoint options) can is here: camel-ospl/README.adoc

Maven project configuration

You can use the provided Maven archetype (gateway-archetype-camel-ospl) to quickly generate a Maven project configured with Vortex Gateway usage and with a Java class to be completed with your Camel routes definition.

It's usage is decribed here: gateway-archetype-camel-ospl/README.adoc

Otherwise, just add the following dependencies to your Maven POM file:

   <dependencies>
      <!-- Gateway's Camel OpensSpliceDDS endpoint -->
      <dependency>
         <groupId>com.adlinktech.gateway</groupId>
         <artifactId>camel-ospl</artifactId>
         <version>${gateway-version}</version>
      </dependency>

      <!-- Vortex OpenSplice -->
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.opensplice</groupId>
         <artifactId>dcpssaj</artifactId>
         <version>${opensplice-version}</version>
         <scope>system</scope>
         <!-- NOTE: leading '/' in following <systemPath> is a workaround
              for a Maven strange issue: without this '/' compilation of an individual
              example leads to an error message complaining that opensplice-idl-plugin's
              POM is not valid since managed dependency org.opensplice.dcpssaj has a non-absolute
              systemPath -->
         <systemPath>/${env.OSPL_HOME}/jar/dcpssaj.jar</systemPath>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>

Note with such dependencies, OpenSplice's dcpssaj.jar doesn't require to be installed in your Maven repository. You just need to ensure that the OpenSplice's release.com is sourced in your environment. Using the system scope in the dependency, Maven will use the the jar at $OSPL_HOME/jar/dcpssaj.jar.

And for the compilation of you IDL files, you need to configure the opensplice-idl-plugin provided with Vortex Gateway:

   <build>
      <plugins>
         <!-- OpenSplice IDL compilation plugin -->
         <plugin>
            <groupId>com.adlinktech.gateway</groupId>
            <artifactId>opensplice-idl-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>${gateway-version}</version>
            <executions>
               <execution>
                  <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                  <goals>
                     <goal>idl-compile</goal>
                  </goals>
               </execution>
            </executions>
         </plugin>
      </plugins>
   </build>

More details on opensplice-idl-plugin in its documentation: opensplice-idl-plugin/README.adoc

Examples

Some examples of Vortex Gateway usage can be found here: Examples

Changelog