Overview

The TIBCO SmartSockets interprocess communications (IPC) Application Programming Interface (API) allows you to send and receive messages asynchronously across a heterogeneous network.

send and receive prioritized messages between two processes through connections

send messages with or without guaranteed message delivery (GMD)

execute user-defined callback functions when certain operations occur

use subjects to send one message to many processes with RTserver (publish-subscribe)

use connections and publish-subscribe from multi-threaded programs

detect network failures and initiate actions to recover from them, such as restarting processes, switching over from primary to backup processes, and retransmitting messages to guarantee delivery

send messages using different IPC protocols over a heterogeneous network of computers

monitor processes by watching and polling for IPC-related information such as projects in use, subjects in use, messages sent and received, names of all RTclients and RTservers, and so on

In general, these API functions can be called from any program. Typically, programs are written in C or C++. However, any language that supports a C binding can effectively use the SmartSockets API.

In addition to the C-based API described in this chapter, other class libraries are included in SmartSockets:

A C++ class library is included with TIBCO SmartSockets and is described in the TIBCO SmartSockets C++ User’s Guide.

A Java class library is included with TIBCO SmartSockets and is described in the TIBCO SmartSockets Java Library User’s Guide and Tutorial.