Table of Contents

• 1  Quick Installation
  • 1.1  Compiling
  • 1.2  Environment Variables
  • 1.3  Executing Applications
• 2  The Programs
  • 2.1  Mtalk: Multi-person Talk
  • 2.2  Wbml: Distributed Whiteboard
  • 2.3  Ensemble: Text-based Interface
  • 2.4  Gossip: Group Locator Service
  • 2.5  Groupd: Membership Service (formerly called Domain)
  • 2.6  Perf: Performance Tests
  • 2.7  Rand: Virtual Synchrony Debugging Tool
  • 2.8  Fifo: Fifo Communication Debugging Tool
  • 2.9  Armadillo: testing Ensemble security extensions
  • 2.10  Life: Game of Life Demo
  • 2.11  Socktest
• 3  Configuration
  • 3.1  Command-line Arguments and Environment Variables
  • 3.2  Transports
  • 3.3  Using Deering IP Multicast
  • 3.4  Notes and Problems
• 4  Text-based Application Interface
• 5  Ensemble ML Application Interface
  • 5.1  Compilation
  • 5.2  Interface Definition and Initialization
  • 5.3  Actions
  • 5.4  The install callback
  • 5.5  View state
  • 5.6  Asynchronous operation
  • 5.7  Exit notice
  • 5.8  Properties
  • 5.9  Initializing Ensemble Applications
• 6  Using PGP
• 7  Native C Ensemble Application Interface (CE)
  • 7.1  Group operations
  • 7.2  Integration of other sockets into the main loop
  • 7.3  Memory management
  • 7.4  The flat interface
  • 7.5  An example
  • 7.6  Outboard mode
  • 7.7  Thread-safety
  • 7.8  A multi-threaded multi-person chat program
  • 7.9  Notes
• 8  Horus Object Tools (HOT)
  • 8.1  Introduction
  • 8.2  The major interface
  • 8.3  Application callback types
  • 8.4  Structures and join options
  • 8.5  Application calls