In order to write a client
for XMLSpaces.Net two tasks have to be done as follows. For each application the
.Net framework defines an XML-file which holds configuration information, which
is mostly named the same as the application (executable file) and the suffix
".exe.config". In order to create a working client the first thing to do is to
modify that config file. Using the example that is provided for download, one
only has to change the serveradress in the confg-file of the
clients.
Example : <configuration>
<system.runtime.remoting>
<application name="[CLIENTNAME]">
<client>
<wellknown
type="XMLTupleSpaceShare.XMLServer,
XmlTupleSpaceShared"
url="[URL_WITH_PORT]/XMLTupleSpace" />
</client>
</application> ...
<system.runtime.remoting> <configuration> CLIENTNAME
the clients programmname (application-name) URL_WITH_PORT is the
http address where the server resides and the port the server is listening
on.
Only if more templates are implemented, the config-file needs to be
modified furter. For any new template that is added, the client's config-file
needs a new entry in order to tell the remoting-framework to handle the
background processes.
These two lines of code are necessary to load
the configuration-file: TupleSpaceConfiguraton tsconfiguration = new
TupleSpaceConfiguraton([PATH_TO_CONFIGFILE]); RemotingConfiguration.Configure([PATH_TO_CONFIGFILE]);
In order to access or create a tuplespace, the client has to
acquire a server-object : XMLServer myServer = (XMLServer)
RemotingServices.Connect(typeof(XMLServer),
tsconfiguration.getUri().ToString());
create/connect to a TupleSpace : XMLTupleSpace ts =
myServer.createTSpace([TUPLESPACE-NAME]); or XMLTupleSpace ts =
myServer.connectTSpace([TUPLESPACE-NAME]);
After these two
steps ts.input(), ts.output(), ts.read() are available for tuplespace
operations.