Processing Client Requests

In the client-server architecture, clients issue requests through session-handle objects to kernel-maintained sessions. Messaging Middleware libraries provide a session-handle class called CMsvSession . Messaging client applications typically create an instance of this class when they start. Client MTMs, UI MTMs and high-level client library classes typically share the message client application’s session object and make requests as needed.

Messaging client applications, Client MTMs and UI MTMs manipulate entries through two classes, TMsvEntry and CMsvEntry . The entry currently being operated on is called the context. A message client application can start by setting the context to the root entry. By finding the children of this initial entry, and then their children, it can find any entry.

Message type-independent operations are requested by message client applications from and Client MTMs and UI MTMs through CMvsEntry or CMsvServerEntry . The Message Server performs such operations itself or uses a Server MTM to do them. For more information on how client requests are handled by Message Server, see Handling Client Requests .