Re: Re: Linux & xAP

[Stuart Booth]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:44:11 +0100, Johan Helsingius <<a
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wrote:

>So I guess there isn't any sort of basic parsing/sending
>reference library in plain C?

Well, there once was another alternative to Patrick's work that may be
what you were after, but sadly the link from my archives no longer
works :( Here's the original post anyway.

Would anybody have a mirror of this? I'm not sure.

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Subject: [xapautomation] xAPLib V1.0 released (LINUX ONLY)
From: Gerry Duprey <<a
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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:50:06 -0500

Howdy All,

xAPLib V1.0 is now available for download and use. You can fetch it
at

<a href="http://www.cdp1802.org/xAPLib/xAPLib.tar.gz";>http://www.cdp1802.org/xAPLib/xAPLib.tar.gz</a>

xAPLib is a xAP V1.2 compliant framework and toolkit for interfacing
programs with an xAP network. xAPLib builds into a shared or static
library allowing support from multiple languages (any language that
supports shared libraries).

xAPLib interfaces your program to xAP via messages and event
responders. Event responders describe, in detail, what sort of message
you want a method/function to respond to so your code does not need to
spend time wading through messages it's not interested in or for that
matter, having to parse the messages.

Here's a summary from the API docs:

Overview of features:
- Full support for xAP V1.2
- Support for Source and Target filtering &amp; wildcarding
- Complete message parsing and encoding
- Automatic handling of multi-part/block messages
- Automatic handling of heartbeat transmission &amp; tracking
- Tools for searching/fetching name/value pairs from message blocks
- Binary values (discouraged, but handled in case you need them)
- Event driven dispatcher freeing your app from parsing/filtering messages
- Supports target based wild cards automatically
- Lower Level Class, Source and Target based events available
- Lowest level raw message transmission and reception/events available
- Clean, logical design with event driven dispatching engine
- Easy integration with existing applications
- Shared library build for multi-language support (C, Perl, Java, etc)
- Automatic Standalone/Hub mode selection
- Efficiant memory use (w/internal memory allocator/managment)
- Full API documentation with included working examples

Installation instructions are in the include INSTALL file. API
documentation is in the included xAP-API.txt file. There is also an
examples directory with a few programs to show how to use xAP. I'll
add more examples to show other aspects of xAPLib as time permits.

While this release of xAPLib is for Linux (well, unix) only, xAPLib
has been written to be multi-platform. If someone is interested in
compiling it for windows (maybe building as a DLL and exposing it as a
nice ActiveX control), that would be most welcome. Baring that, I'll
be working on this at some point in the future :-)

If you have any questions/comments/problems, please contact me. I'm
very interested in feedback folks have on this.

Have a great day,

Gerry

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Ann Arbor, MI 48103
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