Beep for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Using This Toolkit to Create Protocols for Applications to Work and Communicate Across Networks"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

Beep is an open source protocol standardized in 2001 by the IETF / Internet Engineering Task Force for network developers. Beep is a toolkit for building protocols tuned to the requirements of applications. Marshall T Rose wrote the Request For Comment RFC 3080 (for the core framework) and RFC 3081 (for mapping it onto TCP).

Beep is called the "missing link" between the application layer of a network and TCP / Transport Control Protocol. It integrates the best practices for common, basic mechanisms needed when designing applications to run on TCP networks.

Beep is a simple way for developers to easily make their applications to connect with and talk to networks. If you are developing a software program that will run on a network server and communicate with other software programs, you can either painstakingly reinvent the wheel and write line after line of code to tell your program how to send and receive data packets through the network, or use this program to teach your application how to do that.

It comes up with the best solution -- Beep has building blocks for Java, C and Tcl

It can handle these interactions:

Peer to Peer
Client/Server
Server/Client

HTTP is the most common protocol for communicating through networks (it's what your browser is using right now to read this web page), but it's not always the best for:

Framing messages
Encoding data
Negotiating capabilities
Negotiating release

Beep is the integrating glue for:

1. Sessions

2. Channels

3. Exchanges

4. Messages

These the the Beep basics.

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