Summary of Classes

This section lists and describes the Universal Streaming Service classes in the Streaming<ToolKit>. Refer to Streaming<ToolKit> Text Streams for information about the text streaming classes of Streaming<ToolKit>. Trivial classes and helper classes are not listed. The prefix os_ is used by most classes to avoid conflicts with other vendors' class names and differentiates them from ANSI/ISO classes.

Stream Classes

os_bstream the Universal Stream Service (USS) interface that provides portable, non-intrusive object transport and persistence. Works with all os_adapter-supported devices and protocols that use the os_protocol interface.

Device Adapter Classes

The following classes are for use with os_adapter .

`os_fstream_device`	an interface for ANSI/ISO `fstream`.
`os_iostream_device`	an interface for generic ANSI/ISO `iostream`.
`os_istream_device`	an interface for generic ANSI/ISO `istream`.
`os_ostream_device`	an interface for generic ANSI/ISO `ostream`.

Protocol Classes

`os_ascii`	ASCII Data Representation protocol that provides a readable data stream useful for debugging and performance tuning.
`os_ndr`	an implementation of the industry-standard Network Data Representation (NDR) protocol.
`os_protocol`	a base class that defines communication protocol interfaces. Designed to be extensible. Developers can easily add support for new protocols.

Library Initialization and Exception Handling

`os_streaming_toolkit`	provides automatic initialization of Streaming<ToolKit>.
`os_streaming_toolkit_error`	represents an error condition in Streaming<ToolKit>.