Eiffel - Software - EiffelNet

Maintainer

Eiffel Software

Description

EiffelNet extends the standard I/O operations to operate seamlessly across a network.

The EiffelNet socket classes appear at the same level as the EiffelBase class FILE, as heirs to IO_MEDIUM.

The object storage and retrieval mechanisms provided by class STORABLE will now work not just to store an object structure into a FILE (as before), but also into any IO_MEDIUM, including a socket. So the mechanisms are exactly the same for storing objects into a file and sending them over a network.

EiffelNet is part of EiffelStudio.

Features

Whenever an object is sent over the network, all objects to which it has direct or indirect references are also included.
Class variants are provided for single-machine communication and network communication.
Stream communication and datagram communication are provided.
It is possible, through class POLL_COMMAND, to ensure that a certain action will automatically be triggered upon emission or reception of data on a socket.
Predefined classes are provided for common types of client and server.

Supported compilers

ISE Eiffel

Platforms

Linux
Unix
Windows (95/98/ME/XP/2000/NT)

Licensing

» Eiffel Forum License Version 2 (dual-licensed)
Proprietary (dual-licensed)

Packages using EiffelNet

Eiffel Specification by Jonathan Ostroff and others
Log4E by Glenn Maughan

EiffelNet