Intended Audience

This guide is for software developers and project managers who want to know how SmartSockets and the SmartSockets Java class library can help them build distributed applications with program-to-program communication.

Some prerequisite knowledge is needed to understand the concepts and examples in this guide:

working knowledge of Java

familiarity with the operating system is required for developing SmartSockets applications (UNIX, Windows, OpenVMS, or whatever platform is running SmartSockets)

This includes knowing how to log in, log out, edit a text file, change directories, list files, and build and run a program.

understand general messaging and publish/subscribe concepts and terminology

understand the SmartSockets messaging and publish/subscribe concepts described in the TIBCO SmartSockets User’s Guide