Chapter 1. net 0.1

Hugo Duncan

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt )

Table of Contents

Introduction

Sockets

Simple Finger Service

Demultiplexer

Tutorial

Hello World!

Examples

Reference

Header <boost/net/socket/acceptor.hpp>
Header <boost/net/socket/acceptor_fwd.hpp>
Header <boost/net/socket/ip4/address.hpp>
Header <boost/net/demultiplexer/arguments.hpp>
Header <boost/net/socket/connection.hpp>
Header <boost/net/socket/connection_fwd.hpp>
Header <boost/net/socket/connector.hpp>
Header <boost/net/socket/connector_fwd.hpp>
Header <boost/net/demultiplexer.hpp>
Header <boost/net/socket/endpoint.hpp>
Header <boost/net/socket/ip4/protocol.hpp>

Introduction

Giallo is a network programming library. It has many different components, which are designed to work as independently of each other as possible.

For sockets, Giallo provides connection<>, connector<> and acceptor<> classes.

Demultiplexers allow a single thread to process multiple, varied, sources of events. Giallo provides a demultiplexer framework that is based on modern C++ design principles.

The demultiplexer library provides a single interface, with several (proactor and reactor) implementations. The implementations available depend on the platform.

Features include:

application independent demultiplexer.
independence of client code from demultiplexer choice.

Influences and Related Work

Ace reactor and proactor.