TIBCO SmartSockets is an interprocess messaging software product that enables processes to communicate quickly, reliably, and securely across different operating system platforms. The communicating processes can reside on the same machine, on LANs, on WANs or anywhere on the Internet. TIBCO SmartSockets is an industrial-strength package that takes care of network interfaces, guarantees delivery of messages, handles communication protocols, and deals with recovery after system/network failures. The TIBCO SmartSockets programming model is built specifically to offer high-speed interprocess communication, scalability, reliability and fault tolerance. It supports a variety of communication paradigms including publish-subscribe, peer-to-peer, and request-reply. Included as part of the package are graphical tools for monitoring and debugging your distributed applications.
The term message is used throughout this tutorial. It should not be confused with the universally known concept of an email message. A TIBCO SmartSockets message is a structured packet of information that is transferred between two or more programs, which may or may not reside on the same machine. It is not unusual for a TIBCO SmartSockets message to exist only in memory and never be written to disk. A message is a mechanism that enables program-to-program communication to occur in a manner easily understood by both you, the developer, and the programs.
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TIBCO SmartSockets™ Tutorial Software Release 6.8, July 2006 Copyright © TIBCO Software Inc. All rights reserved www.tibco.com |