Introduction

The Beam Beam-lib C++ class library provides a base library for developing real-time and other applications with multi-processor and multi-host support. The Bmeam-lib system has the following features:

Simple Object based development.
Simple Object base library for Strings, Lists, Network access etc.
Support for multi-threaded applications with Mutex Objects etc.
Usable from C++ and Python.
IDL based object creation tool allows easy creation of C++ and Python objects from IDL language.
IDL provides the ability to create SQL database schema automatically.
Database access that allows BDEV Objects to be stored.
BOAP (Beam Object Access Protocol) provides a simple, low overhead protocol, that allows access to remote objects using an RPC mechanism.
Database access via a layer that allows simultaineous access to different database systems including MYSQL and BEAM BDEV native object database.
Concept of Object domains.

Components

The beam-lib system is split into the following libraries:

LibBeam: This is the base class library containing the base 'C++' classes.
LibBeamPy: This contains Python components to allow access to the BEAM class library from Python (limited access).
Bidl: The BEAM BDEV IDL compiler. This takes Object definitions and Interface definitions and creates C++ and Python objects to implement them.

API Examples

Some simple client examples are listed below: