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Summary: NEST: NEtwork Server Tool
Kelly Wilson and John Aycock
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
Email: fwilsonk,aycockg@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Computer Science TR 200474611
Abstract--- This paper presents a specification language ap
proach to automatic server code generation. The language we
present has some similarities to the compiler tools Lex and Yacc,
and makes the generation of state machines and parsing of server
input simple. One of the main features of this new language is
that it can generate three different types of servers: process
based, threaded, and eventdriven. In addition, use of a server
generation tool can improve programming productivity, abstract
away unnecessary details, and eliminate certain classes of error.
Index Terms--- Servers, software tools, threaded servers, event
driven servers.
I. INTRODUCTION
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