Delta V Software

Table of Contents

Version

Introduction

What is RCF?

Why should I use RCF?

Tutorial

Getting started

Interfaces and implementations

Error handling

Client stubs

Transports

Filters

Server-side objects

Client stubs

Timeouts

Pinging

Oneway calls

Batched oneway calls

Client progress callbacks

Per-request user data

Client stub copying

Transports

Server transports

Client transports

Transport configuration

Transport implementations

Server-side objects

Static binding

Session binding

Dynamic binding

Serialization

Basics

Serialization of user defined types

Portability

Using SF as a stand-alone serialization framework

Errors and Exceptions

Error handling in RCF

Internationalization

Reporting server-side errors

Filters

Transport filters and message filters

Enabling transport filters

Enabling message filters

Server-side filter configuration

Server-side filter detection

Custom filters

Versioning

Interface versioning

Archive versioning

Runtime versioning

Custom version negotiation

Protocol Buffers

Publish/subscribe

Disconnect notifications

Publishing topics

Client-side configuration of publishers

Server-to-client callbacks

Example

Multi-threading

Enabling multi-threaded servers

Multi-threading issues

Thread pools

RCF thread safety guarantees

Server Infrastructure

Services

Built in services

Creating a service

Security

Kerberos and NTLM

SSL (OpenSSL)

SSL (Schannel)

Performance

Zero copy

Zero allocation

Server-side object caching

Scalability

Advanced Serialization

Polymorphic serialization

Pointer tracking

Interchangeable types

Unicode strings

Using SF and Boost.Serialization together

Choosing between SF and Boost.Serialization

Protocol Buffers

Protocol Buffer classes

Protocol Buffer performance

RCF Protocol Buffer message protocol

Appendix - Single-threaded RCF

Appendix - Building

Building RCF

Configuration

Third party library versions

Compilers

Platforms

Appendix - Portability

32 and 64 bit portability

Visual C++ 6

Borland C++ 5.9 (Borland C++Builder 2007)

Appendix - Release Notes

RCF 1.3.1

RCF 1.3

RCF 1.2

RCF 1.1

RCF 1.0

RCF 0.9d

RCF 0.9c

Appendix - Frequently asked questions

Building

Platforms

Programming

Miscellaneous