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Foil 7 Application Programming Interface (API)

From Overview of CIV Communication System Rome Lab Quarterly Review for CIV -- October 1 96. by Lukasz Beca, Konrad Olszewski, Chris Walczak, Gang Cheng *

Programming interfaces to port a standalone application into our collaborative framework
Three APIs - Java applet, Java application, C(++)
Major components
  • message objects and types
  • message sending and receiving
  • application registration
Hides complexity of the communication system to application developers



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