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Server Smalltalk Guide
Preface
Notices
- Trademarks
About this book
- Who this book is for
- What's new?
  - VAST Platform 2024 (version 13.0.0)
- Conventions used in this book
- Tell us what you think
What is Server Smalltalk (SST)
Getting started with SST
- Supported infrastructure
- Spaces, contexts, URLs
Concepts helpful for understanding SST
- Connection-oriented design
- Remote references and proxies
Building server applications
- Categorization and Interfaces
- Configurations
  - Callbacks
- Startup and shutdown
  - HTTP server access log
- Putting your application together
  - RPC-style applications
  - Object invocation applications
- An illustration: Ping-Pong examples
- Distributed objects using application contexts
- Packaging notes for SST applications
Inspecting and debugging SST applications
- The SST menu
- Inspectors
- System objects
- Distributed debugging
  - Using the Distributed Debugger
  - Potential problems
- Remote administration
Distributed garbage collection
- Requirements for using DGC
- Installation, startup and shutdown
- The DGC Object
- DGC configuration
- Restrictions and side-effects
- Good practice and bad practice
Constructing new SST configurations
Startup, shutdown, and restart
Configurations
Communications
- Endpoints
  - Equivalence between endpoints
- URLs
- Transports
- TCP transports
  - TCP transport configuration
  - 'tcp' and 'tcpl' URLs
- MQ transports
  - MQ transport configuration
  - 'mq' URLs
- Email Support (SMTP and IMAP4)
  - SMTP Client
  - IMAP4 Client
- Message tunneling
- Communication messages
- Message assemblers
Programming clients and servers with the communications API
- MultiPart Data Support
- Getting remote content using HTTP
- SstHttpClientExample
- Server programming using invocation handlers
  - HttpServerExample
- Secure Client
- Web Application Server
Method invocation
- Requests
- Invocation handlers
- Dispatchers
- Logical process invocation
  - Error and exception handling
  - UI handlers
- Invocation handler configurations
Marshaling
- By-value marshaling
- By-reference marshaling
  - Marshaling wrappers
- Marshaling with Swapper
  - Advanced Swapper-based marshaling
- Lightweight marshaling
  - Advanced lightweight marshaling
Remote object model
- Object spaces
  - Space activations
- Remote references
  - Managing access to remote references
- Addressing objects with naming interfaces
- Space configurations
  - Object space callbacks
  - Object space restart modes
- Application contexts
  - Context restart modes
Java RMI support
- Java type information
- Examples of Java RMI support
- Programming with RMI support
  - Configuring and starting RMI support
  - Using JDK 1.1
    - Changing the stub protocol version for JDK 1.1
      - Changing the stub protocol version for JDK 1.1
    - Java security for JDK 1.2 and higher
    - Migrating method mappings to JDK 1.2 and higher
  - Enabling Smalltalk objects
  - Java client objects
  - Exceptions
  - Limitations
Using the Java/Smalltalk RMI Mapping Wizard
- Setting up the VisualAge for Java Remote Access Tool to API and tool servlet interface
- RMI Wizard Java Interface Settings
- Mapping a Smalltalk class to a Java class
- Mapping a Java interface
- Mapping a Smalltalk class to a Java exception
CORBA IIOP support
- IIOP transports
- Invoking methods using IIOP
- IIOP marshaling
- Remote object model
  - IORs
  - Remote references
- CORBA object services
  - Naming Service
- Other information on CORBA IIOP support
Exceptions
Appendix A. Extensions to Kernel
- SstSharedQueue
- SstPool
- SstWorkerManager
- SstRegistry and SstDualRegistry
- Scheduler
  - SstCronEntry
    - Class methods
    - Instance methods
  - SstCronEvent
    - Class methods
    - Instance methods
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