Lesson 2 Overview

The files for this lesson are located in this directory:

$RTHOME/examples/smrtsock/tutorial/lesson2 

RTHOME:[EXAMPLES.SMRTSOCK.TUTORIAL/LESSON2] 

%RTHOME%\examples\smrtsock\tutorial\lesson2 

In the previous lesson, you wrote a program to send a message and a second program to read and print out the message. This message was not transferred directly from sender to receiver; rather, it went first from the sender to the TIBCO SmartSockets RTserver process, and then from RTserver to the receiving program. The intervention of RTserver is completely transparent. In fact, RTserver performs many important tasks transparently. Many of these tasks are described in this lesson.

TIBCO SmartSockets allows you to send messages directly between two processes, peer-to-peer, without using RTserver. This is done using connections. However, in this tutorial you focus on using RTserver for interprocess communication, because this is the method most commonly used and it offers numerous advantages over TIBCO SmartSockets peer-to-peer connections.