Dec 7 1999.

Smalltalk as a Real-Time Server


Sept 10 1996

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Table of Contents

Smalltalk as a Real-Time Server

Smalltalk as a Server?

The Problem

7 by 24 world-wide

The old system

Smalltalk...Why not?

Client Response

Our Journey Begins

Operating System requirements

Interfaces

Consumers and Mappers:

Consumers and Mappers II

Building Consumers and Mappers

Class Hierarchy

Scheduling and debugging

Don't Panic!, or Vogons ->Panic!

Starting the Tasks at Hand

Initialization

Post work and disconnect

Processing

Errors 101

Error Recovery and Delivery of Data

Logging. Why?

Logging II

The network is weird and hostile

Notification? How?

Testing

Testing II

The GUI

The GUI II

Peering in....

Heartbeat of the application

Memory

OutCome

User Feedback

The Future and THE END

Author: John M McIntosh

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