Lesson 1 Overview

The files for this lesson are located in these directories:

UNIX:

$RTHOME/examples/smrtsock/tutorial/lesson1

OpenVMS:

RTHOME:[EXAMPLES.SMRTSOCK.TUTORIAL/LESSON1]

Windows:

%RTHOME%\examples\smrtsock\tutorial\lesson1

The fastest way to learn TIBCO SmartSockets is by example. Before introducing many of the key concepts of TIBCO SmartSockets, you will first write, compile, link, and execute sample C programs that use TIBCO SmartSockets for their interprocess communication. The TIBCO SmartSockets User’s Guide describes TIBCO SmartSockets in much greater detail, using a layered approach: first describing messages, then peer-to-peer connections, then client-server connections, and finally how to monitor and debug a TIBCO SmartSockets application. When concepts are not clear to you from the tutorial, or are not presented in enough depth, refer to the TIBCO SmartSockets User’s Guide.

In this lesson you write your first programs, compile them, link them, and run them. At the end of this lesson your application will consist of these programs:

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

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