Open C Platform (OCP)

Foundation Facilities for Development of Libre Protocols

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Open C Platform (OCP) is a set of well defined interfaces and service definitions for basic facilities needed for implementation of lower layer OSI protocol in C. Independent implementations of OSI protocols that adhere to Open C Environment (OCE) can easily be integrated to realize real open systems.

OVERVIEW

• Data Sheets
  
  • OCP: Base Source [pdf]  [ps]
  • OCP: Test Tools Source [pdf]  [ps]

• Purpose Of OCP: A Foundation for the Development of Efficient Protocols. This industry white paper provides an overview description of OCP, including a comparison of OCP with other candidates for this problem space such as RPC (Sun Microsystems), ROSE (ISO), WTP (the WAP Forum), T/TCP, RDP and VMTP.

• Source Description OCP Source DescriptionThis document provides details on the programming development environment of Neda's source code of OCP (Efficient Short Remote Operation Services) protocols.

• OCP Protocol: OCP has been published as RFC-2188

• The OCP Organization: OCP.org hosts a number of mailing lists to support maintenance, enhancement and promotion of the OCP protocols and related technologies.

• Application Programming Interfaces (APIs): Fully documented APIs interfacing to OCP

• OCP Server Development Toolkit: Binary form of OCP Software Development Toolkit for the following platforms is available:
  • Linux and Solaris (and most other Unix)
  • Windows 2000/XP
• OCP in Embedded Environments: Portation of OCP to embedded environments is as simple as selecting or implementing Open C Platform modules.

  The Open C Platform is subject to Library General Public License (LGPL) and is publicly availble.

• OCP in Java and J2ME: Open-source Java and J2ME implementations of OCP are available under the General Public License (GPL).

• OCP Stress and Regression Test Tools: Stress and Regression Test Tools for OCP protocols are available in source code form.

• Applications using OCP: Uses of OCP in vertical applications include: telemetry, dispatch, credit card verification and vehicle tracking. For an example of how reliable and efficient applications can easily be built on top of OCP, see Efficient Mail Submission and Delivery (EMSD).

• OCP Commercial Software Licensing: Neda Communications, Inc is the author of OCP Protocol and this implementation of OCP. Commercial licenses for the above software is available through Neda.

• OCP Commercial Support: Neda Communications, Inc provides Maintenance, Portation Assistance and Consulting services for the OCP software.