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22 NI LabVIEW Frameworks

Overview

A better, more current list is hosted at the LabVIEW Wiki.

Overview of several LabView-Frameworks to get a better understanding of the different pros and cons.

Name	Purpose / Description	Pros	Cons
DQMH	Delacor Queed Message Handler, based on NI QMH	Open, lot of helper VIs	…
Actor Framework	Open and popular framework by NI	Open, well tested, good documentation	relatively complicated, no RT
DCAF	Distributed Control and Automation Framework	Configuration-based workflow, networking	…
ALOHA	Simple framework with GUI management	KISS approach, open source	…
Featherweight	Actor based applications (not related to NI Actor Framework)	collection of libraries, No dependencies	…
Stream	New publisher / subscriber based framework	Open source, new modern approach, (network transparent)	few infos & doku
Workers	Lightweight, based on queues	Little overhead	rather new, small community

… to be continued