XNet 1.0 review

XNet 1.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 180K Developer: Jean Baptiste LE STANG Price: $0.00 Updated: 14 Dec 2005

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XNet 1.0 is a scriptable faceless background application that provides a convenient way of controlling TCP sockets.

XNet is composed of two main components:

- XOSL framework, the heart of the scriptability of the application, it contains everything related to dealing with OSL (you know when you see nice objects such as ’document id 1 of application "foobar"’, this is OSL!), and manipulating objects with AppleScript. This allow other applications (yet to come) to benefit from this framework without having to re-implement everything from scratch. BTW when you ’ve found a bug in the framework, you just have to correct it once and all your scriptable applications will benefit of it !

- XNet.app the scriptable application, just a few lines of C for handling sockets and the glue for using the framework.