Documentation/Messaging

Using Message Bus and Publisher/Subscriber design pattern for system integration

• OpenIGTLink can be used to define the common message schema, and ZeroMQ can be used to handle the transportation layer abstraction
• ZeroMQ is a small and fast implementation of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol under the LGPL license
  • It supports both synchronous and asynchronous messaging mode
  • It supportsTCP, Multicast/PGM, Inter-process, and inter-thread transportation
  • CMake version of library can be found here http://github.com/PatrickCheng/zeromq2
  • API can be found here http://api.zeromq.org/zmq.html