Rendezvous Components

Rendezvous software adds two parts to your current operating environment:

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An API library. Each program process links a version of the Rendezvous API library. Other books in the Rendezvous documentation set describe versions of the Rendezvous API for use with several different programming languages.

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The Rendezvous communications daemon—in most environments, one daemon process runs on each host computer.

Rendezvous Operating Environment illustrates the interaction of these two parts in the operating environment. Computer 1 runs program A and a daemon process. Computer 2 runs two programs, B and C, which connect to the network using a single Rendezvous daemon process. All three programs can communicate with one another.

Figure 2: Rendezvous Operating Environment

Any computer can run any number of Rendezvous programs. Usually all the programs on one computer share the same Rendezvous daemon.