1. Introducing the ToolTalk Service
2. An Overview of the ToolTalk Service
4. Setting Up and Maintaining the ToolTalk Processes
5. Maintaining Application Information
6. Maintaining Files and Objects Referenced in ToolTalk Messages
7. Participating in ToolTalk Sessions
13. Managing Information Storage
A. Migrating from the Classing Engine to the ToolTalk Types Database
B. A Simple Demonstration of How the ToolTalk Service Works
Sending and Receiving Messages in the Same Process
ToolTalk Scenarios
File Scope
Using the General-Purpose Function to Create ToolTalk Messages
Scope Attributes
File Scope
File-In-Session Scope
Session Scope
File Scope
Scope Attributes
File-In-Session Scope
Scoping to a File in a Session
Scoping to a File Only
Scoping to a File and/or a Session
Scoping to a Session Only
Sending a Message
Modifying Applications to Send ToolTalk Messages
Sending Notices
Sending Requests
Sending ToolTalk Messages
Serialization of Structured Data
Starting a ToolTalk Session
Sessions
Sessions
Starting a ToolTalk Session
Session Scope
Session-Scoped Message Flow
Where are queued messages stored and how secure is the storage?
Background and Batch Sessions
Sending and Receiving Messages in the Same Process
Using the General-Purpose Function to Create ToolTalk Messages
Setting Up to Receive Messages
What files are part of the ToolTalk service?
Maintaining ToolTalk Files and Databases
Maintaining ToolTalk Files and Databases
Location of the ToolTalk Service Files
ToolTalk-Enhanced Shell Commands
Managing Files that Contain ToolTalk Information
ToolTalk-Enhanced Shell Commands
ToolTalk-Enhanced Shell Commands
Environment Variables Required to Start Programs on Remote Hosts
Starting a ToolTalk Session
Signatures
Signatures
Starting a ToolTalk Session
Starting a ToolTalk Session
Starting a ToolTalk Session
Object Data
Destroying Object Specs
Adding Values to Properties
Assigning Otypes
Creating Object Specs
Destroying Object Specs
Determining Object Specification Properties
Examining Spec Information
Maintaining Object Specs
Moving Object Specs
Querying for Specific Specs in a File
Storing Spec Properties
Updating Object Specs
Updating Object Specs
Writing Object Specs
Starting a ToolTalk Session
Starting a ToolTalk Session
Starting a ToolTalk Session
Starting a ToolTalk Session
Environment Variables Required to Start Programs on Remote Hosts
Changes in State of Sent Message
Defining Static Messages
Message Patterns
Adding Message Callbacks
Attaching Callbacks to Static Patterns
Redirecting the Host Machine
Redirecting the File System Partition
Storing Spec Properties
ToolTalk Environment Variables
ToolTalk Environment Variables
What is TT_TOKEN?
ToolTalk Environment Variables
How can a process connect to more than one session?
Converting the System Database