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OpenSRF -- The Book

Introduction and Setup
1. Benefits of OpenSRF over other Application Frameworks
  1. Language Agnostic
  2. standard message formats – XML, JSON
  3. persistent TCP network connections – crosses firewalls
2. Notes on compiling C/C++ code
3. installing software
4. Configuring Jabber
  1. Chop Chop, Jabber
    1. Compiling Chop Chop
    2. Running Chop Chop
  2. jabberd
    1. no-store and escape patches
    2. basic configuration
single host installation
1. jabber
2. configuring the server bootstrap config
3. configuring the client bootstrap config
  1. network client
  2. local client
  3. srfsh
multi-host network installation
1. Jabber
2. configuring the server bootstrap config
3. configuring the client bootstrap config
  1. network client
  2. local client
  3. srfsh
multi-host multi-domain network installation
1. jabber
2. configuring the server bootstrap config
3. configuring the client bootstrap config
  1. network client
  2. local client
  3. srfsh
configuring the global application config file
1. starting everthing up and testing
  1. starting the stock servers (settings, persist, math and mathdb)
  2. connecting with srfsh
  3. running a test app (math_bench.pl)
client development guide
1. AppSession types
  1. session oriented virtual connections – multi-call state
  2. single request stateless connections
2. calling conventions and uses
  1. Perl API
    1. super-simple “method lookup” style calls
    2. simple stateless calls using create→request→gather
    3. simple serialized stateful calls using create→connect→(request→wait_complete→gather)→disconnect
    4. simple concurrent stateful requests using create→connect→request…→gather
  2. user managed sessions and requests using create→connect→request→complete/recv→failed/content→disconnect
3. Configuring Python clients
4. the Settings server
  1. the SettingsClient
5. Persist Application API
administration, testing and scripts with srfsh
server development guide
1. Perl Application Development API
  1. Example Application Server

Appendix A) annotated config files
Appendix B) advanced srfsh
Appendix C) interpreting the log files
Appendix D) Definition of terms in OpenSRF