Intended Audience

This tutorial is for software developers and project managers who are interested in learning how SmartSockets can help them build distributed applications with program-to-program communication faster and with less risk than using other methods.

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

working knowledge of C/C++

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 compile, link, and run a program.

understand general messaging and publish/subscribe concepts and terminology