Lesson 1 Overview

The files for this lesson are located in the directories:

Windows:

%RTHOME%\java\tutorial\lesson1

UNIX:

$RTHOME/java/tutorial/lesson1

During this lesson, you write, compile, and run these programs:

send — sends a message with the text "Hello World!" contained in its data part

receive — reads a message and prints out the data part of the message (in this example, this is "Hello World!")

To use the SmartSockets Java classes effectively, it is important that you understand these functional areas that each class manages:

SmartSockets classes start with a T prefix

IPC classes start with Tipc (the ipc is for interprocess communication)

methods that manipulate messages are in the TipcMsg class

methods that manipulate message types are in the TipcMt class

methods that manipulate connections are in the TipcConn class

methods that communicate with RTserver are in the TipcSrv class

utility methods are in the Tut class

methods allowing a client to monitor other clients and servers are in the TipcMon class