| Release Date | March 3rd, 2008 |
| Status | Deprecated |
| Download | Archive |
| Git Tag | N/A |
| Baseline | N/A |
This is a Major Release. It contains significant updates and is recommended for all users.
Brace yourselves; Portico v0.8 is upon us. As with all the major Portico releases to date, it include a significant step forward in coverage of the HLA specification, as well as a number of bug fixes and stability improvements. In this release we've added support for the HLA Data Distribution Management API services - and boy what a trial it was! Fold in a healthy dose of quality time with the C++ interface and you have all the ingredients for a big release, including:
The primary development activity for Portico v0.8 was the implementation of DDM support for HLA 1.3. All of the API calls listed in the "Data Distribution Management" section of the HLA 1.3 specification have now been implemented in both the Java and C++ interfaces.
While developing Portico v0.8, a number of memory leaks and bugs were found and fixed in the C++ interface. This interface continues to grow more robust and stable as development goes on and the implementation in v0.8 is the strongest version yet.
While serving as a prisoner intern at Calytrix Technologies this
past summer (Australian that is), Nick Staples braved the large and often smelly
beasts that roam the Portico internals and began implementing a Portico GUI Plugin
that shows live data about active federations. For more information about the Portico
GUI plugin, see the Plugin Directory.
C++ interface support for Mac OS X has now been added and a separate download for this platform is available. The current C++ interface has been compiled on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) and is targeted at Apple's Intel-based computers. At the moment, the current C++ libraries don't seem to work out of the box with Tiger (10.4), but we have had reports that the interface does happily compile and run on Tiger (if users wish to complete this task themselves).
Throughout the development process, a number of smaller new features were added and bugs fixed. For the full list of more than 70 features/bug fixes/improvements that went into Portico v0.8, see the ChangeLog.
Although not strictly directly related to Portico, one other new and noteworthy event that occurred during Portico v0.8 development was the announcement by Calytrix Technologies that they decided to make SIMplicity Online available for free when using Portico. This is a fantastic resource for the wider simulation community and I would encourage all people to take a look at SIMplicity and make use of it if it suites their requirements.
If Kevin is to be believed, anything is possible. Where "anything" includes you signing up to the Portico announcement mailing list, he may well be right. Is he? Don't let Kevin down. He's a big guy.
