Symbian Programming SIG: Sockets and Active Objects

The January meeting of the Symbian programming SIG will be at the Mozilla Foundation on the 31st. Here are the details.

What: Symbian Programming SIG meeting (Topic: Sockets and Active Objects)

When: January 31st, 7PM

Where: Mozilla Foundation, 1981 Landings Drive, Build K, Mountain View, CA - directions

Speaker: John Kern

Audience: Anyone interested in programming Symbian devices.

Cost: Nothing!

Abstract: Symbian is an advanced contemporary OS. I admire the client/server architecture. In conjunction with Active Objects, it provides an effective and easy to use mechanism for both interprocess communication and asynchronous function calls. Unlike UNIX, socket programming on Symbian makes heavy use of Active Objects. This talk compares a simple POSIX/C client application with the Symbian equivalent. We'll explain the basics of Active Object usage while exploring some variations on a trivial socket application.

-jk