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Table of Contents
1 Introduction....................................................................................................................4
1.1 Remote Procedure Calls (RPC).................................................................................4
1.2 A quick example.......................................................................................................5
1.3 Main Features..........................................................................................................6
2 Building an application...................................................................................................7
2.1 Defining a set of remote procedures.......................................................................8
2.1.1 IDL Syntax and mapping to C++.........................................................................9
2.1.2 Example...........................................................................................................15
2.2 Generating specific remote procedure call support code.....................................15
2.2.1 FASTRPCGEN Command Syntax:......................................................................15
2.2.2 Server side.......................................................................................................16
2.2.3 Client side........................................................................................................16
2.3 Server implementation..........................................................................................16
2.3.1 API...................................................................................................................17
2.3.2 Exceptions.......................................................................................................17
2.3.3 Example...........................................................................................................18
2.4 Client implementation...........................................................................................18
2.4.1 API...................................................................................................................18
2.4.2 Exceptions.......................................................................................................19
2.4.3 Example...........................................................................................................19
3 Advanced concepts.......................................................................................................20
3.1 Network transports................................................................................................20
3.1.1 TCP Transport..................................................................................................20
3.2 One-way calls.........................................................................................................22
3.3 Threading Server strategies...................................................................................22
3.3.1 Single thread strategy......................................................................................22
3.3.2 Thread Pool strategy.......................................................................................23
3.3.3 Thread per request strategy............................................................................23
4 HelloWorld example.....................................................................................................24
4.1 Writing the IDL file.................................................................................................24
4.2 Generating specific code........................................................................................24
4.3 Client implementation...........................................................................................25
4.4 Server implementation..........................................................................................25
4.5 Build and execute...................................................................................................26
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