Overview
Nirvana provides a rich set of APIs that provide developers
with the ability to create peer to peer (P2P) applications.
We call these peer to peer applications 'services'.
There are 2 parts to a Peer to Peer service in Nirvana,
a server service and a client service. The server service
when running, is visible within the Nirvana Namespace,
and available to any client service wishing to connect.
The Nirvana realm server acts as the bridge that connects
client services to server services. Each server service
can support multiple client services.
To visualise this in terms of realm life applications,
please read the following examples.
Further documentation on managing
P2P services is also availabe the Nirvana Admin
API guide.
Nirvana peer to peer services fall into 2 main categories,
event based services or stream based services.
This guide will demonstrate how Nirvana peer to peer
services work, and provide examples code snippets for
all relevant concepts.
To find sample code for example p2p applications, please
see the p2p
examples section. These samples are provided as
part of the Nirvana installation in the Nirvana bin
directory.
The following sections will be covered:
Server Service
Client Service
Event Service
Stream
Service
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