Zombie homepage

Introduction

This is the homepage for the Zombie project developed as a joint venture by Jan Ekholm and Sten Nordström.

Zombie is a server and an API designed for easy network communication between applications. Zombie relieves the programmer from implementing the often difficult networking code. Zombie is suitable for applications of many different types, as it provides both TCP and UDP communications, as well as many convenient high-level functions. Zombie is currently only for Linux.

To develop an application using Zombie is very easy. All you have to do is set up a server (or use an existing server) and develop using the Zombie C++ classlibrary.

Zombie is released under GPL. See the documentation below for more information.

Documentation

These manuals are still very rough, butI write the documentation as soon as possible.

• Main Manual. Contains general documentation about Zombie.
  • PostScript (gzipped) (49kB)
  • PDF (gzipped) (63kB)
  • HTML

• Programming guide. Describes the Zombie API.
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  • PDF (gzipped) (62kB)
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• Command reference. Contains the reference manual for all commands (packet types) used within Zombie.
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• Public classreference. Contains documentation for all classes needed by developers. Internal classes are not documented in this document. This should make it easier to learn Zombie.
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• Complete classreference. Contains documentation for all classes used in both the Zombie server and the client API. Internal classes that developers normally never need are also documented
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Download

The latest version is 0.71. Download as:

• source package
• server RPM for RedHat 6.1
• development libraries RPM for RedHat 6.1
• documentation RPM for RedHat 6.1
• source RPM

A Debian package will be available soon!

CVS access

This gives you access to the bleeding edge. The version here may not always work, nor even compile, so use at your own risk! Currently the only way to access the Zombie CVS is anonymously.

Access the CVS with the access string:

csh: % setenv CVSROOT ":pserver:anonymous@cvs.zombie.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/zombie"
sh: % export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.zombie.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/zombie"

First you need to log in to the server. For the password just press Enter.

% cvs login

Now you can check out the sources for Zombie with the command:

% cvs co zombie

You can also check out one of the stable(r) releases if you don't want to get the bleeding edge versions. The sources are tagged in the repository for each public RPM-release. The tags are named zombie-MAJOR_MINOR-BUILD. If you for instance want to check out the older version 0.70-2 you should issue the command:

% cvs co -r zombie-0_70-2 zombie

If you encounter any problems please mail me.

News

News of the development can be found here.

ChangeLog

You can view the Zombie ChangeLog to see what has been going on.It is always the most uptodate resource on Zombie progress, as it is generated from the CVS on demand.