Re: Re: Linux & xAP

[Stuart Poulton]

There is a mirror of the downloads available from Patricks site here

<a href="http://downloads.xapautomation.org/lidstonep.html";>http://downloads.xapautomation.org/lidstonep.html</a>

Note it is possible that some packages are out of date, but should get
you started.

Regards

Stuart P

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 13:22, Stuart Booth wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Gerry Duprey
> Ann Arbor, MI 48103
> <a href="http://www.cdp1802.org";>http://www.cdp1802.org</a>
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