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+<concept id="GUID-F6B9860A-E7F2-5B03-878D-9BCA0AF029C2" xml:lang="en"><title>Quick
+Start</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<p>Generic OS Services is a collection of components and libraries that provide
+generic OS level services to the Symbian platform components and applications. </p>
+<section><title>Getting started with Generic OS Services</title> <p>The following
+list briefly describes how device creators or Symbian Developers can use the
+APIs of the components and libraries provided by Generic OS Services: </p> <ul>
+<li id="GUID-E5E9B035-EA72-5931-9295-6601A5A202CA"><p>Use the Plug-In Framework
+(ECom) APIs to register, discover plug-ins and load appropriate plug-ins. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-2C3836C2-5F9B-5E5B-95A8-725325956AFF"><p>Use the P.I.P.S. libraries
+(<codeph>libc</codeph>, <codeph>libm</codeph>, <codeph>libpthread</codeph> and <codeph>libdl</codeph>)
+to port POSIX-based applications to the Symbian platform. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-195FD344-AF6B-517A-869C-99A816FE45CB"><p>Use the Standard C++
+libraries to develop or port Standard C++ applications or libraries to the
+Symbian platform. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-71C8DD3C-9989-5EB0-AC01-BACACB0BB683"><p>Use the <xref href="http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/librt.html" scope="external">Librt</xref> library APIs to port Librt-based applications
+to Symbian platform quickly and easily. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-83754BD8-F2AA-55FC-999F-BF46BDD1CA61"><p>Use the EUser High Level
+(EUserHL) library to do better string handling, resource management, and error
+handling and object creation along the lines of standard C++ practices. EUserHL
+library provides a usability layer to hide away some of the complexities of
+the Symbian platform. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-6BEBEC4E-71F5-56F0-A731-DD498446B6BB"><p>Use the Zip Compression
+Library APIs to perform file and stream compression and decompression. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-D62D3C16-0C6A-5569-BCD7-546EBF687282"><p>Use the task scheduler
+APIs to develop applications with scheduling options and capabilities. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-26FD6D1B-5F7C-5C4B-8474-B5B7D4BB7D0F"><p>Use the Active Backup
+Client APIs to create backup and restore software with complete control of
+the data backed up and restored. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-D9B2CA30-9AA0-529C-B531-5B511BD05B7C"><p>Use the HTTP Utilities
+library APIs to extract URI components, construct and modify Uniform Resource
+Indicators (URIs), text utilities, and URI component utilities required to
+work with URIs. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-4FC76033-12BC-5D76-AD3F-D4825E3D6C1B"><p>Use the MIME (Multipurpose
+Internet Mail Extension) Recognition Framework APIs to implement data type
+recognition using MIME recognizer plug-ins. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-22816C73-E2CC-57FD-BB18-8A3DA071F95B"><p>Use the Basic Application
+Framework Utilities library (BAFL) to in turn use utilities, such as clipboard,
+command-line parser, descriptor array, environment change notifier, incremental
+matcher, resource files, localized names of plug-ins, system sounds and string
+pools. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-B4CB6CF9-8022-55A8-9642-2F79306C6653"><p>Use the Base Services
+Utility library (BSUL) to validate messages and handle errors. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-F239EF07-F3DC-5C23-8A21-44CDFE798322"><p>Use the Activity Manager
+library to enable clients to monitor user inactivity (idle time) and user
+activity (key press). </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-FFF66809-C883-570C-A741-9182280B2F7C"><p>Use the System Utility
+library to perform the following tasks: </p> <ul>
+<li id="GUID-62F47958-AFEF-5D09-BF39-88676E8E889B"><p>Retrieve software and
+language package version strings for display purposes. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-B3726DF9-7108-5C0A-A713-2B0BAA36051A"><p>Check for free space
+on a disk drive before file creation or writing. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-F47C051F-921C-5B72-8498-0D4AB4FB295F"><p>Get device type information
+(phone model) for display purposes. </p> </li>
+</ul> </li>
+</ul> </section>
+<section><title>Architecture</title> <p>The Generic OS Services module is
+a group of non-related components and libraries that provide OS level services
+to other components of the Symbian platform. The components and libraries
+in Generic OS Services are grouped into the following collections: </p> <ul>
+<li id="GUID-D831C8AB-D3AF-57EB-81CF-E4EF1E57CBED"><p><xref href="GUID-9208E03A-CC7A-57A9-84BD-778B99040842.dita"> Compression
+Libraries</xref>  </p> </li>
+<li><p><xref href="GUID-E2DE2C6F-E071-5E88-96F1-D71DDED84609.dita">Generic Open
+Libraries</xref></p></li>
+<li id="GUID-5F25107F-DF98-5DB1-9D4A-B8A7B68B2919"><p><xref href="GUID-94215E49-605B-51BA-B215-10BDA1A0C013.dita">Generic
+Services</xref>  </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-FE8F4625-0D24-5113-A72F-B9E70801284F"><p><xref href="GUID-324107D1-6E0B-56DD-BDC0-7296F688A9CF.dita"> Low
+Level Libraries and Frameworks</xref>  </p> </li>
+</ul> <p>The following diagram outlines the Generic OS Services collections
+and components associated with each collection: </p> <fig id="GUID-3DCD7AF8-7355-5752-A569-EA4F9078C739">
+<title>              Collections and components of Generic OS Services   
+        </title>
+<image href="GUID-AD95D78A-9323-5E97-96C4-FB4872B66755_d0e128205_href.png" placement="inline"/>
+</fig> </section>
+<section><title>Technologies</title> <p>Generic OS services enables, implements
+or uses the following technologies: </p> <ul>
+<li id="GUID-66896EAF-09A0-5EBB-A496-106F94A924EA"><p> <b>zlib:</b> The <xref href="GUID-5D14ADEC-ED83-5FA4-B551-C57CAE4F79BE.dita">Zip Compression Library</xref> (EZLib)
+provides C++ wrapper classes that encapsulate the functionality of the Open
+Source <xref href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib" scope="external">zlib</xref> library
+v1.2.3. It provides stream and file compression and decompression functionalities. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-EF1DE4A8-CBE1-5DD3-9D89-E2EAC1CC1B29"><p> <b> Standard C++:</b> A
+Standard C++ environment with IOStream and STL (Standard Template Library)
+libraries enables you to develop or port Standard C++ applications or libraries
+quickly and easily on Symbian platform. For more information, see the <xref href="GUID-4492D5C1-C64E-5561-8A3F-8D887603B6FB.dita"> Standard C++ Porting Tutorials</xref> section. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-95F58286-C65B-5EC3-A432-1C3C5CA02269"><p> <b>P.I.P.S. Is POSIX
+on Symbian Platform (P.I.P.S.):</b> P.I.P.S. provides an API layer, above
+the Symbian platform native APIs, that is more closely aligned with industry
+standard APIs making Symbian software development more accessible to Symbian
+Developers who program using the C language. Symbian Developers can use the
+P.I.P.S. libraries (<codeph>libc</codeph>, <codeph>libm</codeph>, <codeph>libpthread</codeph> and <codeph>libdl</codeph>)
+to port POSIX-based applications to the Symbian platform. For more information,
+see the <xref href="GUID-C4C85189-BA6F-5F11-ABB3-727D8C1F5984.dita">P.I.P.S. Porting
+Tutorials</xref> section. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-571DD883-A5A6-5A89-9092-47279A521685"><p> <b> POSIX.1b, Real-time
+extensions:</b> The Librt library enables support POSIX.1b, Real-time extensions
+on Symbian platform and is based on the Linux Standard Base (LSB) 3.1 specification.
+It covers features such as shared memory, clocks and real time emulation for
+timers. Support for the Librt library on Symbian platform enables you to port
+Librt-based applications to Symbian platform quickly and easily. For more
+information, see the <xref href="GUID-6565B222-4036-5C3D-8319-4CDDA3F2098D.dita">Librt</xref> section </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-CBF47924-085E-5546-92D8-D9269072B816"><p> <b>MIME (Multipurpose
+Internet Mail Extension):</b> MIME is an internet standard system for identifying
+the type of data in a file or stream. Types can include graphics, photos,
+audio, video files and formatted text. MIME type recognition enables devices
+to identify data in streams or files and start appropriate applications automatically. </p> <p>This
+technology is implemented by the MIME recognition framework component. The
+MIME recognition framework implements data recognition using MIME recogniser
+plug-ins. For more information, see the <xref href="GUID-F18D0E06-2FB8-5339-AF31-02CC7D5A8010.dita">MIME
+Recognition Framework</xref> section. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-51BFDE39-44E7-51E6-82BC-2F45738A0ADD"><p> <b>ECom Plug-in:</b> The
+Plug-in (ECom) framework is a generic framework that enables registration
+and discovery of plug-ins, and the loading of an appropriate plug-in. The
+Plug-In framework is intended to provide a common and system-wide mechanism
+for instantiating a dynamically determined component. For more information,
+see the <xref href="GUID-9E92EE30-F2E2-5F28-BB2A-391C09EC69D2.dita">Plug-in Framework</xref> section. </p> </li>
+</ul> </section>
+</conbody></concept>
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