Table of Contents

Version

Introduction

What is RCF?

Why should I use RCF?

Tutorial

Getting started

Interfaces and implementations

Error handling

Client stubs

Server sessions

Transports

Transport protocols

Server-side threading

Asynchronous remote calls

Publish/subscribe

Callback connections

File transfers

Protocol Buffers

JSON-RPC

Remote Calls - Client-side

Remote call semantics

Pinging

Client progress callbacks

Per-request user data

Access to underlying transport

Copy semantics

Remote Calls - Server-side

Configuring a server

Server-side sessions

Serialization

Standard C++ types

User-defined types

Binary data

Portability

File-based serialization

Transports

Transport access

Transport configuration

Transport implementations

Transport Protocols

NTLM

Kerberos

Negotiate

SSL

Compression

HTTP/HTTPS Tunneling

Server-side

Client-side

Server-side Access Controls

Servant binding access controls

Asynchronous Remote Calls

Asynchronous remote call invocation

Asynchronous remote call dispatching

Publish/Subscribe

Publishers

Subscribers

Access control

Callback Connections

Creating callback connections

Identifying clients

Transport protocols

File Transfers

File uploads

File downloads

Bandwidth limits

Versioning

Interface versioning

Archive versioning

Runtime versioning

Custom version negotiation

Protocol Buffers

Performance

Zero copy

Zero allocation

Server-side object caching

Scalability

Advanced Serialization

Polymorphic serialization

Pointer tracking

Interchangeable types

Unicode strings

Third Party Serialization

Boost.Serialization

Protocol Buffers

JSON-RPC

Appendix - Building RCF

Configuration

Third party library versions

Compilers

Platforms

Appendix - Logging

Appendix - Release Notes

RCF 2.1.0.0 - 2015-06-01

RCF 2.0.1.101 - 2014-09-06

RCF 2.0.1.100 - 2014-04-24

RCF 2.0.0.2685 - 2013-07-17

RCF 2.0.0.2683 - 2013-06-18

RCF 2.0.0.2682 - 2013-06-01

RCF 2.0.0.2679 - 2013-03-27

RCF 2.0.0.2678 - 2013-03-07

RCF 2.0.0.2675 - 2013-01-03

RCF 2.0.0.2673 - 2012-10-28

RCF 2.0.0.2672 - 2012-10-23

RCF 2.0.0.2670 - 2012-10-16

RCF 2.0.0.2668 - 2012-10-15

RCF 2.0.0.2665 - 2012-09-29

RCF 2.0.0.2664 - 2012-09-24

RCF 2.0.0.2661 - 2012-09-02

RCF 2.0.0.2648 - 2012-08-19

RCF 1.3.1

RCF 1.3

RCF 1.2

RCF 1.1

RCF 1.0

RCF 0.9d

RCF 0.9c

Appendix - FAQ

Building

Platforms

Programming

Miscellaneous