Implemenation of service in Symbian

Question

In transient server implementation, the client application is a console-based exe.

I want to know if I can integrate my GUI-based appplication with client and server given in transient server.

What is the best way?

1. Whether it is good to convert client exe to dll and use the dll in my application using RLibrary.

2. Whether it is good to implement LIB and integrate this into the project.

Right now I am able to launch TestClient.exe from my GUI application using startup api.

If I want to run the server in the backround and my GUI application in the foreground, what is the best way to integrate transient server with GUI application?

Launching TextClient.exe will not solve my problem because I want to communicate my GUI communicate with client

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If your intention is to separate the GUI from a daemon-like background process, you might want to check out the concept of client/server architecture on symbian - not to be confused with client/server networking situations.

Symbian Client/Server architecture allows two-way communication between the GUI in your example and the background process.

Forum Nokia - Introduction to the client-server architecture