Lesson 3 Overview


The files for this lesson are located in the directories:

Windows:
%RTHOME%\java\tutorial\lesson3 
UNIX:
$RTHOME/java/tutorial/lesson3 

As seen in the previous lessons, within a SmartSockets application, interprocess communication occurs through messages. A message is a structured packet of information sent from one process to one or more other processes providing instructions or data. Messages can carry many different kinds of information in a SmartSockets application, including: alarms, variable-value pairs representing sensor information, and IPC information about a client.

These different kinds of messages are classified by message type. For example, numeric data is typically sent in a NUMERIC_DATA message, and an operator warning is typically sent in a WARNING message. A SmartSockets application can use both the standard message types provided with SmartSockets and user-defined message types you create.


TIBCO SmartSockets™ Java Library User’s Guide and Tutorial
Software Release 6.8, July 2006
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