Re: Newbie Question
Re: Newbie Question
- Subject: Re: Newbie Question
- From: Mark Grimes <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:14:57 -0700
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On Jul 13, 2004, at 3:43, Quinn wrote:
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> At 22:54 +0000 12/7/04, Maxwell Robertson wrote:
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>> Can anyone offer advice on how to start developing a client -
server
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>> application?
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>
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> What can you tell us about:
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>
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> o the platform requirements? (what version of Mac OS X?, would you
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> like to support other platforms?)
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>
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> o the development environment? (we've had a lot of Pascal questions
on
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> the list recently :-), but there are other concerns (CW vs Xcode,
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> Mach-O vs CFM, etc))
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>
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> o the expected workload? (total bandwidth, number of transactions
per
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> second, number of clients)
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>
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> o the protocol? (what do you need to transmit between the client and
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> the server?)
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> Your answers to these questions will significantly affect my
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> suggestions.
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>
Some additional advice:
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1) Follow Quinn's advice;
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2) Invest in a book by W. Richard Stevens, called "Unix Network
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Programming". It is in 3 editions by now. The second is in two
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volumes, the first dealing with the socket and XTI APIs. It has been
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rewritten, in a 3rd edition, by someone other than Stevens, but I
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suspect it is still a good resource. These books go into some detail
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on the subject of client-server design and implementation, and include
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plenty of example code (which is available on the web).
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Regards,
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>
Justin
Justin, although I am sure you have read Steven's UNIX Network
Programming Volume 1, I recommend checking out the new edition... XTI
sockets and T/TCP are dropped as they SHOULD be. I don't think anyone
is losing sleep over that :) Current and more common technologies are
added and/or updated.
New edition (3rd edition) covers:
+ IPv6
+ POSIX 1003.1-2001 (Single Unix Specification version 3)
+ SCTP
+ Key management sockets chapter (e.g. usage with IPsec)
+ Book also qualifies that source code testing was conducted using Mac
OS X for one of its test machines :)
I HIGHLY recommend this new edition -- it comes in an electronic version
(Safari Bookshelf) for those of us that have laptops and like to travel
light -- but of course there is also the cement shoes version ;)
Cheers,
Mark
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