Requirements
The Linxter SDK is currently supported on:
- Android v1.6 or later
- Windows Phone 7 or later
- .NET 3.5 or later
- Java version 5
- coming soon, iOS support
Components
- Linxter SDK: The Linxter Software Development Kit contains the API that developers use to integrate programs with the Linxter ISB.
- Linxter ISB: The Linxter Internet Service Bus is the hosted, collective set of back-end services that processes messages between Linxter enabled programs.
- Linxter Web Manager: The Linxter Web Manager is the interface for administering your Linxter enabled programs and the developers associated with your company.
Terms
- Program: When you register a program to the ISB, you are not storing any code there. You are registering its name and its communication configuration settings that are used by all instances of it. Once registered, it is assigned a unique Program ID.
- Program Instance: An installed copy of a Program. There may be many instances of the same program running at one time, on multiple machines or on one machine, by multiple users or by one user. Each program instance is uniquely identified by a Program Instance ID.
- Communication Channel: A digital contract that enables and governs message-based data transactions between instances of Linxter enabled programs. Communication channels are created only after a communication channel request is made and accepted/approved.
Open Standards
The Linxter API and Internet Service Bus (ISB) are REST and SOAP services, built entirely on open standards. However, Linxter went on to solve many of the additional coding headaches that a developer faces. Linxter is REST + SOAP + additional features and services developers would otherwise have to code themselves.
We've incorporated the best of the old world (traditional message-oriented middleware) and merged it with the best of the new. Linxter combines cloud computing and web services, and adds many necessary features: security, reliability, local transactional queues, durable and ordered messaging, guaranteed-once-delivery, chunking, authentication, authorization, self-managing address books, non-repudiation, and dynamic change management, to name a few. All are baked in to our REST and SOAP based Linxter API.