1. Background

GNet[1] is a simple network library under GPL.  It is written in 
C, object-oriented, and built upon GLib.  It supports abstract 
Internet addresses, TCP, UDP, IP Multicast, IPv6, asynchronous 
DNS lookups, SHA, MD5, Base64, URIs, and SOCKS.This project 
intends to integrate  GNet 2.0.8 into the JDS consolidation 
and will be installed as SUNWgnet.  


 1.1  Name of Document Author/Supplier:

      Author:  david.fan@sun.com
      Author:  steven.le@sun.com
      Sponsor: John Fischer

 1.2  Date of This Document:

      10/14/08

2. Architecture

GNet requires GTK GLib 2.0/2.2.   It was designed so that most 
of the implementation is hidden from the developers.  Developers 
should not have to include anynetwork header files other than gnet.h.

Gnet features:
 * TCP "client" and "server" sockets
 * UDP and IP Multicast sockets
 * High-level TCP connection and server objects
 * Asynchronous socket IO
 * Internet address abstraction
 * Asynchronous DNS lookup
 * IPv4 and IPv6 support
 * Byte packing and unpacking
 * URI parsing
 * SHA and MD5 hashes
 * Base64 encoding and decoding
 * SOCKS support
 * High-level HTTP connection object


3. Dependencies

   glib 2.10.1	LSARC/2006/202
  

4. Interfaces

    Interface Name		    Classification       Comments
    --------------------------- -------------------    -----------------
   SUNWgnet                               Volatile       Package name
   /usr/lib/libgnet-2.0.so.0.8.0          Volatile       version 2.0.8
   /usr/lib/libgnet-2.0.so                Volatile       symlink
   /usr/lib/libgnet-2.0.so.0              Volatile       symlink
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0                  Volatile       directory
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/gnet.h           Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/base64.h         Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/conn-http.h      Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/conn.h           Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/inetaddr.h       Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/iochannel.h      Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/ipv6.h           Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/mcast.h          Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/md5.h            Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/pack.h           Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/server.h         Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/sha.h            Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/socks.h          Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/tcp.h            Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/udp.h            Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/tcp.h            Volatile       header file
   /usr/include/gnet-2.0/uri.h            Volatile       header file

 
   Imported Interfaces
   -------------------
   /usr/lib/glib-2.0                      Uncommitted    LSARC/2006/202


5. Man pages

   /usr/share/man/gnet.3

6. References

[1]  Gnet homepage:  http://www.gnetlibrary.org