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ToolTalk User's Guide

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Book Information
Preface
- Who Should Use this Book
- How This Manual Is Organized
- Related Documentation
- Accessing Sun Documentation Online
- Typographic Conventions
- Shell Prompts in Command Examples
1. Introducing the ToolTalk Service
- Overview
- ToolTalk Scenarios
- How Applications Use ToolTalk Messages
- ToolTalk Message Distribution
- Modifying Applications to Use the ToolTalk Service
2. An Overview of the ToolTalk Service
- ToolTalk Architecture
- Starting a ToolTalk Session
- Maintaining ToolTalk Files and Databases
- Demonstration Programs
3. Message Patterns
- Message Pattern Attributes
- Scope Attributes
- Context Attributes
- Pattern Argument Attributes
- Disposition Attributes
4. Setting Up and Maintaining the ToolTalk Processes
- Location of the ToolTalk Service Files
- Version
- Requirements
- Environment Variables
- Installing the ToolTalk Database Server
- Running the New ToolTalk Database Server
- Redirecting the ToolTalk Database Server
5. Maintaining Application Information
- Installing Application Types
- Examining ToolTalk Type Information
- Removing ToolTalk Type Information
- Updating the ToolTalk Service
  - To send the ttsession process a SIGUSR2:
- Process Type Errors
- Using ttsnoop to Debug Messages and Patterns
6. Maintaining Files and Objects Referenced in ToolTalk Messages
- ToolTalk-Enhanced Shell Commands
- Maintaining and Updating ToolTalk Databases
- Displaying, Checking, and Repairing Databases
7. Participating in ToolTalk Sessions
- Including the ToolTalk API Header File
- Registering with the ToolTalk Service
- Registering in the Initial Session
- Setting Up to Receive Messages
- Sending and Receiving Messages in the Same Process
- Sending and Receiving Messages in a Networked Environment
- Unregistering from the ToolTalk Service
- Using ToolTalk in a Multi-Threaded Environment
8. Sending Messages
- How the ToolTalk Service Routes Messages
- Message Attributes
- ToolTalk Message Delivery Algorithm
- Modifying Applications to Send ToolTalk Messages
- Examples
9. Dynamic Message Patterns
- Defining Dynamic Messages
- Updating Message Patterns with the Current Session or File
10. Static Message Patterns
- Defining Static Messages
- Defining Process Types
- Defining Object Types
- Installing Type Information
- Checking for Existing Process Types
- Declaring Process Type
- Undeclaring Process Types
11. Receiving Messages
- Retrieving Messages
- Checking Message Status
- Examining Messages
- Callback Routines
- Handling Requests
- Observing Offers
- Destroying Messages
12. Objects
- Object-Oriented Messaging
- Creating Object Specs
- Writing Object Specs
- Updating Object Specs
- Maintaining Object Specs
- Destroying Object Specs
- Managing Object and File Information
- An Example of Object-Oriented Messaging
13. Managing Information Storage
- Information Provided to the ToolTalk Service
- Information Provided by the ToolTalk Service
- Calls Provided to Manage the Storage of Information
- Special Case: Callback and Filter Routines
14. Handling Errors
- Retrieving ToolTalk Error Status
- Checking ToolTalk Error Status
- Returned Value Status
- Returned Pointer Status
- Returned Integer Status
- Broken Connections
- Error Propagation
A. Migrating from the Classing Engine to the ToolTalk Types Database
- The ttce2xdr Script
- Converting the User Database
- Converting the System Database
- Converting the Network Database
B. A Simple Demonstration of How the ToolTalk Service Works
- Inter-Application Communication Made Easy
- Adding Inter-Operability Functionality
- We Have Tool Communication!
- Adding ToolTalk Code to the Demonstration Applications
C. The ToolTalk Standard Message Sets
- The ToolTalk Desktop Services Message Set
- The ToolTalk Document and Media Exchange Message Set
- General ToolTalk Message Definitions and Conventions
- Errors
- General ToolTalk Development Guidelines and Conventions
- Developing ToolTalk Applications
- Messaging Alliances
D. Frequently Asked Questions
- Questions
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