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Overview

This book introduces the tools you'll need to program with the packetC language.

packetC speeds the development of applications that live within computer networks, the kind of programs that provide network functionality for connecting "clients" and "servers” and “clouds." The simplest examples provide packet switching and routing while more complex examples implement cyber security, broadband policies or cloud-based network infrastructure.

Network applications, such as those processing digital voice and video, must be highly scalable, secure and maintainable. Such application requirements translate to requirements for a network programming language that leverages massively-parallel systems and ensures a high level of security, while representing networking prools and transactions in the simplest way possible.

packetC meets these requirements with an intuitive approach to coarse-grained parallelism, with strong-typing and controlled memory access for security and with new data types and operators that express the classic operations of the network-oriented world in familiar programming terms.

No other language has addressed the full breadth of requirements for tractable parallelism, secure processing and usable constructs. The packetC language is growing in adoption and has been used to develop solutions operating in some of the world’s largest networks.

This important new language, packetC, has now been successfully documented in this book, in which the language's authors provide the materials and tools you'll need in a readable and accessible form.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781430241584
Publisher: Apress
Publication date: 12/22/2011
Edition description: 1st ed.
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

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Table of Contents

PART 1:        packetC Background

Chapter         1:        Origins of packetC

Chapter         2:        Introduction to packetC Language

Chapter         3:        Style Guidelines for packetC Programs

Chapter         4:        Construction of a packetC Program

PART 2:        Language Reference

Chapter         5:        Variables—Identifiers, Basic Scalar Data Types, and Literals Chapter         6:        Data Initialization and Mathematical Expressions

Chapter         7:        Functions     

Chapter         8:        packetC Data Type Fundamentals

Chapter         9:        C-Style Data Types

Chapter         10:      Basic Packet Interaction and Operations

Chapter         11:      Selection Statements

Chapter         12:      Loops and Flow Control

Chapter         13:      Exception Handling

Chapter         14:      Databases Types and Operations  

Chapter         15:      Search Set Types and Operations          

Chapter         16:      Reference Type and Operations

Chapter         17:      Lock and Unlock Operators  

Chapter         18:      Packet Information Block and System Packet Operations Chapter         19:      Descriptor Type and Operations

PART 3:        Developing Applications

Chapter         20:      Control Plane and System Interaction

Chapter         21:      packetC Pre-Processor     

Chapter         22:      Pragmas and Other Key Compiler Directives

Chapter         23:      Developing Large Applications in packetC

Chapter         24:      Construction of a packetC Executable

Chapter         25:      packetC Standard Networking Descriptors

Chapter         26:      Developing For Performance

Chapter         27:      Standard Libraries

PART 4:        Industry Reprints

Appendix        A:      Reference Tables

Appendix        B:      Open Systems Vendors for packetC

Appendix        C:      Glossary

Appendix        D:      CloudShield Products Supporting packetC

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