BEEP: The Definitive Guide

Table of contents

1. BEEP: The Definitive Guide
   1. Foreword
   2. Preface
      1. The Intended Audience
      2. Conventions Used in This Book
      3. We’d Like to Hear from You
      4. Acknowledgments
      5. Personal Notes
   3. 1. Introduction
      1. Application Protocol Design
      2. The Problem Space
      3. The IETF and BEEP
      5. How This Book Is Organized
   4. 2. Concepts
      1. Sessions
      2. Channels
      3. Exchanges
      4. Messages
         1. XML in Under Two Pages
         2. The application/beep+xml Content-Type
      5. Packet Formats and Traces
   5. 3. Tuning
      1. The Greeting
         1. Supported Profiles
         2. Localization (L10N)
      2. Channel Management
         1. Channel Creation
            1. The piggyback
            2. Virtual hosting
         2. Channel Destruction
         3. Session Release
      3. The TLS Profile
      4. The SASL Family of Profiles
      5. Tuning in Practice
      6. Tuning Profiles Versus Exchange Profiles
      7. The Lifecycle of a Session
   6. 4. Exchanges
      1. Client/Server
         1. BEEP URIs
         2. SOAP Extras
         3. The SOAP over BEEP Registration
      2. Server/Client
         1. The Syslog Raw Profile
         2. One Packet Trace
         3. So Why Bother?
      3. Peer-to-Peer
         1. A Digression
      4. Let’s Recap
   7. 5. BEEP in Java
      1. A Guided Tour
         1. The Echo Initiator
         2. The Echo Listener
      2. Fundamental Classes
         1. Sessions
            1. Session creators
            2. The Session class
            3. The ProfileRegistry class
         2. Channels
            1. The Profile interface
            2. The Channel class
            3. Message listeners
         3. Data
            1. The Message class
            2. Data streams
         4. Exceptions
         5. Utilities
   8. 6. BEEP in C
      1. A Portable Implementation
         1. Architecture
         2. The threaded_os Wrapper
      2. Echo and Sink
         1. The null Profile Module
            1. The header file
            2. The Source File
            3. Module entry points
            4. Outer callbacks
            5. Channel start callbacks
            6. Channel close callbacks
            7. Tuning reset callbacks
            8. Data exchange callback
            9. Driver entry points
         2. The Listening Driver
         3. The Initiating Driver
         4. Let’s Recap
      3. Reliable Syslog
         1. The Header File
         2. The Source File
         3. Module Entry Points
         4. A New Callback
         5. Channel Start Callbacks
         6. Channel Close Callbacks
         7. Tuning Reset Callbacks
         8. Data Exchange Callbacks
         9. Driver Entry Points
   9. 7. BEEP in Tcl
      1. Introduction to Tcl SOAP
         1. Client Functions
         2. Server Functions
      2. Adding BEEP Support to the Client
         1. Creation
         2. Configuration
         3. Invocation
         4. More Packet Traces
      3. Adding BEEP Support to the Server
         1. The Info and Boot Methods
         2. The Init and Fin Methods
         3. The Exch2 Method
         4. Configuring the Server
   10. 8. Futures
       1. Experiences
       2. Stability and Evolution
       3. Tunneling
       4. Transport Mappings
       5. Finally
   11. A. On the Design of Application Protocols
       1. A Problem 19 Years in the Making
       2. You Can Solve Any Problem...
       3. Protocol Mechanisms
          1. Framing
          2. Encoding
          3. Reporting
          4. Asynchrony
          5. Authentication
          6. Privacy
          7. Let’s Recap
       4. Protocol Properties
          1. Scalability
          2. Efficiency
          3. Simplicity
          4. Extensibility
          5. Robustness
       5. The BXXP Framework
          1. Framing and Encoding
          2. Reporting
          3. Asynchrony
          4. Authentication
          5. Privacy
          6. Things We Left Out
          7. From Framework to Protocol
       6. BXXP Is Now BEEP
   12. References
       1. References
   13. Index