client server framework

[Bizio]

Ok, I am looking to see if someone can point me in the direction of a
simple client server framework for passing messages between two
computers?

Basically I will have two computers on their own, isolated network. I
want to be able to pass messages from the client to a server. The
message contains a state and a command, as well as a data portion. The
data portion can be either a char*, an int, or two ints currently.

I have been looking at sockets, but am fairly new at this. I figure
before I went and invested the time upfront to learn good socket
coding standards, i'd see if there was a good framework out there.

Thanks.

If it helps, i am using Borland C++ Builder 2007. I looked at
http://linuxgazette.net/issue79/tougher.html but was unable to get it
to compile with BCB 2007. I am fairly new to both BCB 2007 and C++ as
I just switched to C++ from Delphi Pascal.

[coal]

On Sep 24, 12:20 pm, Bizio <[e-mail]:

Ok, I am looking to see if someone can point me in the direction of a
simple client server framework for passing messages between two
computers?

Basically I will have two computers on their own, isolated network. I
want to be able to pass messages from the client to a server. The
message contains a state and a command, as well as a data portion.

I think what you refer to as a command I might call a message
ID. Do you represent commands with an integer type?
What is the state? Why is it separate from the data portion?
The way I usually do things a message ID is the first part of
a message and there may be some header information (such as
the total length of the message) and then the data.

Brian Wood
Ebenezer Enterprises

"All things (e.g. A camel's journey through
a needle's eye) are possible it's true.
But picture how the camel feels, squeezed out
in one long bloody thread from tail to snout."

C. S. Lewis

[jlindrud]

On Sep 25, 4:20 am, Bizio <[e-mail]:

Ok, I am looking to see if someone can point me in the direction of a
simple client server framework for passing messages between two
computers?

RCF might fit your bill:

http://www.codeproject.com/threads/Rcf_Ipc_For_Cpp.asp