Requirements
Need to Have
The current version of the Linxter SDK for .NET is supported on Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista. The machine must have the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 runtime components installed.
Future versions of the SDK will support Windows Mobile, Java and JavaME. A Representational State Transfer (REST) API for Linxter is also under development.
Need to Know
- Linxter ISB: The Linxter Internet Service Bus is the hosted, collective set of back-end services that processes messages between Linxter enabled programs.
- Linxter SDK: The Linxter Software Development Kit is the set of documentation and code that developers use to integrate programs with the Linxter ISB.
- Linxter Web Manager: The Linxter Web Manager is the interface for administering your Linxter enabled programs and the developers associated with your company.
- Program: A program registered to the ISB contains the name of the program and the configuration settings that are used by all instances of it. Each program is uniquely identified by a Program ID.
- Program ID: Used to bind instances to their registered program and its configuration settings. When an instance registers itself to the ISB, it pulls down its configuration settings using the Program ID.
- Program Instance: An installed copy of a program. There may be many instances of the same program running at one time, on multiple machines or on one machine, by multiple users or by one user. Each program instance is uniquely identified by a Program Instance ID.
- Program Instance ID: When creating channel requests, and sending and receiving messages, Program Instance IDs are used for unqiue addressing.
- Communication Channel: A conduit that enables and governs message-based data exchange between instances of Linxter enabled programs.