Chapter 6. Networking
Networking
is a critical component of many applications today. Networking APIs
can take many forms, including TCP/IP communications with the sockets
library or interprocess communications using Cocoa's
distributed objects system. Mac OS X's Darwin layer
includes all standard Unix networking technologies and APIs, which
are fully accessible from any Cocoa application. In addition to being
able to access the Unix APIs, the Foundation framework implements
several classes that give applications a higher-level interface for
working with networking technologies. This chapter summarizes
Foundation's networking classes, shown in Figure 6-1.
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