Introduction

Thunder is a Modular architecture with plug and play design where it has a flexibility to enable or disable any feature just as a plugin.

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• The modularity of RDK4 reduces the app development life cycle.

• Core - Components Every RDK Build will need regardless of operator
• Localization - Optional Components that can be added depending on operator requirements

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• Firebolt ® is RDK4's Video Application Platform, leveraged by both RDK & non-RDK systems.

• Firebolt ® can empower non-RDK Systems

Thunder Framework

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From Apps, there are external input interface that can send in JSONRPC messages, JSONRPC messages through dispatcher will be routed to proper micro/nano services.

Modular architecture

• The system is build up from several  layers. The functionality is contained in  modules.

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JSONRPC/COMRPC Process transparency

 Most important part of framework is to make sure we can run processes & separate process,we can run nano/micro services out of process.So,we need to communicate to nano/micro services throughout API's.

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COMRPC is a binary RPC migration

• Marshalling code,Proxy/Stubs are generated from the C header file!!

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JSONRPC is to communicate JSON object  messages.

 JSON data objects,boiler plated handlers and documentation are generated from a JSON specification file!!

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Resources opened up through JSONRPC

This gives us information regarding once system is ready ,what kind of micro/nano services are all available.
Difference between micro and nano is that micro service actually requires graphics -graphical resources or player resources

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