Related Books and Other Documentation

CDE ToolTalk Messaging Overview does not provide in-depth information about ToolTalk and its functionality. In addition to the ToolTalk product base documentation (that is, ToolTalk User's Guide and the ToolTalk Reference Manual), the following related ToolTalk documentation provide in-depth information about the ToolTalk functionality that is beyond the scope of this book:

• The ToolTalk Service - An Inter-Operability Solution (Published by SunSoft Press/PTR Prentice Hall, ISBN 013-088717-X)

  This book describes ToolTalk and its functionality in depth, and is appropriate for all platforms to which ToolTalk has been ported.

• ToolTalk and Open Protocols (Published by SunSoft Press/PTR Prentice Hall, ISBN 013-031055-7)

  This book describes how to create and develop open protocols for applications that use a messaging service to communicate with other applications. The general principles described in this book provide an application with the flexibility required for users to easily interchange tools.

• ToolTalk Message Sets

  • ToolTalk Desktop Services Message Set

    These conventions apply to any tools in a POSIX or X11 environment. In addition to standard messages for these environments, the Desktop conventions define data types and error codes that apply to all of the ToolTalk inter-client conventions.

  • ToolTalk Document and Media Exchange Message Set

    Allows a tool to be a container for arbitrary media, or to be a media player/editor that can be driven from such a container.

  • CASE Inter-Operability Message Set

    An open specification defining abstract, framework-neutral message interfaces for CASE set up by Sun, DEC, and SGI. This work has been merged with HP's CASE Communique work, which defined message interfaces for HP's SoftBench Broadcast Message Server framework, and was submitted as a joint draft to ANSI X3H6. More information on the draft X3H6 standard can be retrieved from ftp.netcom.com, in /pub/X3H6; or you can contact:

    X3 SecretariatComputer and Business Equipment Manufactures Assoc1250 Eye St NWWashington DC 20005-3922Telephone: (202) 737-8888 (press `1' twice)Fax: (202) 638-4922 or (202) 628-2829