Portico

Portico is a cross-platform, open-source and fully supported HLA Run-Time Infrastructure implementation. It was designed from the ground up to facilitate modularity and ensure flexibility, and it is intended to serve as a production-grade RTI for the simulation and training community. Open access is provided to the infrastructure needed to drive HLA federations.

Portico supports multiple HLA interfaces for both Java and C++: HLA 1.3 (Java and C++), IEEE-1516 (Java) and IEEE-1516e (Java and C++).

When it comes to Java, the JRE is already shipped with the product, but JDK will need to be available on your machine if you are writing federates.

For C++, cross-platform support is offered for 32- and 64-bit architectures. As far as Windows is concerned, the following libraries are pre-packaged: VC8, VC9 and VC10.

Some sample federates are included in the downloadable package to help users set their environment up correctly, and they also provide some example HLA code that should make it easier to get started.

You can consult the instructions available on the project’s GitHub page if you need help with the basics, and more extensive documentation should become available once the official website is up and running again.