2.3. Workflow

The System Designer main UI offers seven views, which represent the tasks in XML-Based Application Creation and Routing Service:

  • Types Definition

  • QoS Specification

  • Domain Definition

  • Participant Definition

  • Plugins Definition

  • Routing Service Definition

  • User Environment Variables Definition

We suggest you start by defining a Type and proceed with the definition of the QoS. Then move to the Domain view, register your types, and declare your Topic. Finally, use the Participant view to define your participant, DataReaders, and DataWriters.

Of course, you can always (and probably will) go back and forth among these views to tweak your system.

If you are defining a Routing Service configuration file, also move to the Plugins view, register the plugins, and then declare your Routing Service configuration in the Routing Services view.

System Designer automatically saves your projects and changes. (You can disable Autosave from the Projects menu: select Properties.)