Chapter 2: Developing applications using XTI or TLI

Table of contents

• Chapter 2: Developing applications using XTI or TLI
  • Why use XTI?
  • What XTI can do
  • Network programming concepts
    • Client-Server computing
    • How clients and servers communicate
    • Transport addresses
    • Modes of service
    • Synchronous and asynchronous operation
    • Flow of transmitted data
    • Structure of transmitted data
    • Priority of transmitted data
  • Transport provider states
  • Error conditions
  • Options management
  • Event management
  • Compiling and linking with XTI
  • XTI and TLI
  • XTI and sockets
  • Transport-specific issues
  • Pseudo-code examples
    • Client pseudo-code
    • Server pseudo-code
  • Implementing a read/write interface
  • For more about XTI and TLI