Bedawang TCP Server Framework

About Bedawang

In daily business, developers often need to create a solution to a problem that has already been solved by others. One of these problems is the implementation of a multiplexing TCP server, e. g. to create an agent or backend for any kind of network-based software.

However, one often finds poorly implemented solutions, that either do not scale well, or do not properly implement SSL or TLS support. Other security issues (like format string vulnerabilities, race conditions or simply buffer overflows) occur much more frequently than one would like to see.

This is where Bedawang jumps in. Bedawang is specialised in "only" providing the TCP/IP stuff, network I/O, process management, multiplexing and SSL/TLS support. So any application built atop Bedawang just can concentrate on implementing the layer 7 protocol and the application logic.

Installation Instructions

Requirements

To compile Bedawang, the following third party applications are required:

• A C compiler capable of handling ANSI C GCC 4.2 and Clang 2.8 are known to work
• CMake 2.8 or newer

Installation

Check out the Bedawang source code:

git clone git://github.com/daemotron/Bedawang.git

Now you can bootstrap and build Bedawang:

cd Bedawang
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make
sudo make install
make clean

This will install Bedawang to /usr/local (the shared library to lib, and the necessary header files to include).

Frequently Asked Questions

• What does the name Bedawang mean?

  In Balinese hinduistic mythology, Bedawang Nala is the name of a huge turtle carrying the world on its back. Of course I am not that fatuous, thinking this project would carry the world on its back - but it can, to a certain extend, carry greater, bigger and nicer projects on its virtual back.