Nirvana Flex: Peer to Peer Services

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. This guide will demonstrate how Nirvana Peer to Peer Services work, and provides examples code snippets for all relevant concepts.

P2P Service Components

There are two parts to a Peer to Peer Service in Nirvana: a Server Service and a Client, in Flex only the client portion is available. To see more information about the Server service see either the Java , C#or C++

A Nirvana Peer to Peer Client is a process that connects to a Nirvana Realm, obtains a reference to a Server Service and begins communicating with it.

When a Client connects to the Server Service, all communication between the Client and server sevice takes place through the Nirvana Realm, using Nirvana's standard communication protocols.

P2P Service Types

There are two types of Nirvana Peer to Peer Services, Flex only supports Event Based Services:

  • Event-based Services

    Nirvana Peer to Peer Event-based Services communicate via events which are published by the Event-based Client, and received and responded to by the Event-based Server Service.

Examples

The following examples give methods needed to implement a client to work with Java, C# or C++ Server Service:

For more information on Nirvana Peer to Peer Services please see the API documentation.