Infinite Monkeys Incorporated 17919 SW Rigert Road Aloha, OR 97007 (503)380-7424 Home  |  About  |  Contact  |  News Archive  |  Coral Coral Tree Library Set Online Manuals  |  Contrib  |  Download  |  Legal What IS Coral? Coral is a collection of C++ (except OSD which is C) libraries. An outline below briefly covers what some of the modules do. Software Costs The Coral Tree is free, under the Artistic License (see the Legal page). Manual Costs We have previously printed hardcopy manuals using yodl2tex. We will consider additional runs given interest. The set would probably cost $50.

Coral Tree Library Set: Online Manuals

Actively Supported Platforms:

• Solaris 2.x on Sparc
• Irix 6.x on Mips
• HPUX 10.x on Hppa
• Linux 2.x on x86
• Linux 2.x on Alpha
• Windows 95 on x86
• Windows NT on x86

Other platforms that have been used some time in the past:

• SunOS 4.x on Sparc
• Solaris 2.x on x86
• Irix 5.x on Mips
• HPUX 9.x on Hppa
• Linux 1.x on x86
• FreeBSD 2.x on x86
• LynxOS on 680x0
• OSF/1 on Alpha
• NEWS (basicly NEC's Sys V) on Mips
• EWS (Sony's Sys V) on Mips
• OS/2 on x86
• Amiga on 680x0 (more than a tweak)

Overview of the library set:

Key

• Yellow circles daemons
• Brown circles administrative shells
• Blue rectangles Coral modules
• Pink rectangles third party modules
• Blue arrows system dependency/abstraction
• Red arrows point from older module to its replacement

OSD

Operating System Dependent

• system dependent abstractions
• system call mappings

GPL

General Purpose Library

• pointer and reference based container types
  • lists/sets
  • maps/hash tables
  • arrays
  • queue
  • stack
  • values/tuples/bags
  • bitgroup
  • string
  • reference counted pointers
• generic object support with marshalling/serialization
  • object
  • persistent
  • factory
  • depictable
  • message
• delivery-based logging mechanism
• module initialization ordering mechanism
• time abstraction
• file interface

MTE

Multi-Threading Environment

WBA

Well Behaved Application

• unified environment
  • environment variables
  • command line arguments
  • configuration files
• base application classes
  • application
  • daemon
  • shell

SPA

Special Purpose Abstractions

• blockencrypter
• vector
• matrix
• random

BLD

BuiLDer

• platform independent
• concise,flexible language

EW

Event-Window abstraction

• platform independent event handling
• platform independent window handling
• true object oriented approach

WDS

WiDget Set
Jump to the screen shots

• configurable dynamically switchable look and feel
• widgets
  • button (push, toggle, and radio)
  • divider
  • document
  • form
  • getstring/pointer
  • hierarchy
  • hierarchyfile
  • image
  • menu
  • partition
  • picklist
  • popup
  • scope/bypass
  • scrollregion
  • table
  • textlist
  • tie

IWS

Intuitive Widget Set

• simplified layer over WDS

NL

Network Library

• abstracts point-to-point communication
• currently has TCP and UDP implementations

DNA

Dynamic Network Abstraction

• alternative to NL
• currently has TCP and UDP implementations
• has more refined interface than NL
• user extensible design
• client message handler

LM

License Manager

• easy to use client-server (application-lm daemon) license management
• simple but extensible encryption
• features can be licensed for a period of time and a range of versions

KMD

KeyMaster Dependent

• abstract system resources that need a daemon (the keymaster)
  • shared memory
  • semaphores/mutexes
  • events
• provides both persistent (UNIX) and non-persistent (NT) behavior

DSS

Distributed Shared memory System

• provides distributed,random access byte blocks (chunks)
• replication/fault-tolerance
• strict coherency operations
• relaxed coherency operations
• multiple store options (making Windows 95 port possible)

DSSX

Distributed Shared memory System eXtended

• high level constructs
  • tuple/bag
  • cache
  • record/content
  • ordered
  • synch

NCS

• Next generation of DSS under development
  • highly scalable (built on IP multicast)
  • more refined interface tiers

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