TACTICS: A CORBA-BASED DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING INFRASTRUCTURE

Abstract

TACTICS (sponsored by the US. Army Tank Automotive Command) is a set of interconnectivity services that provides the application-oriented user flexibility and ease-of-use in rapidly configuring simulations composed of custom developed or legacy code. Simulations include software simulations and software controlled hardware systems. TACTICS adheres to object-oriented design principles and takes full advantage of the benefits offered by industry object-oriented standards such as the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). With C++ as the core language, classes and toolsets have been developed which enable existing simulations to be migrated to the object-oriented paradigm and interoperate with each other in an integrated simulation environment.