Many of our customers applaud our introduction of the various add on tools for our base development tools because it allows them to pick and choose which features and components they want to implement. This allows us to maintain a high standard of quality and reliability for our base products and avoid the serious problems associated with “feature bloat” commonly found in products which attempt to support for as many features as possible in a single development tool.
TCPSimple provides support for creation and use of basic TCP/IP socket connections for communication via TCP/IP based networks. TCPSimple does NOT handle encapsulation of popular internet protocols such as HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3 etc. It does not handle secure sockets or SSL and is not aware of HTTP tunneling or proxy servers. What it does do however, is give you simple, easy access to socket based communications by handling selected portions of the interface to the Windows Winsock2 API. TCPSimple can be used to implement basic Socket Clients and servers, and allows two way communication over TCP/IP Sockets.
One interesting feature when you use the control with COBOL sp2 is that you can setup the control to listen for a connection and then continue your normal processes. An event will be fired when a connection is pending, allowing you to manage the connection when it is required, but still continue to process other aspects of your application without “waiting” endlessly for a connection.
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