Drawing inspiration from WCF, WitCom enables servers to broadcast their availability via UDP multicast with customizable parameters and periodic “heartbeat” messages. Clients, equipped with a dedicated Discovery component, listen for these announcements to automatically build connections based on real-time service information. This article details the server-side configuration for Discovery, including setting transport types, encryption, and descriptive metadata, and explains how clients can leverage received messages to establish the proper transport connection. Learn to integrate this powerful feature into your distributed applications and streamline the connection process in dynamic network environments.
Inter-process Communication with WitCom
WitCom is a WCF-like communication framework that allows you to define service interfaces, select a transport, and configure full-duplex communication with just a few lines of code. Supported transports include common options like Named Pipes, TCP, and WebSocket, as well as unique support for memory-mapped files. This enables ultra-fast, low-latency duplex communication on a local machine, ideal for transferring large volumes of data with maximum efficiency.