Communication

Communication in POP is abstract, multiple communication protocols can be used at the same time. Those protocols are abstracted by the Combox object and its companion, a 3 generic and 3 helper classes for a total of 6.

POP-Java plugin explains how to create a new user generated Combox while in this chapter we want to explain what’s behind a standard Combox and what happen between a Client’s Interface and the POP Object’s Broker.

Combox architecture

Broker ↔ Interface architecture

POP Buffer

Standard Data Types

POP Data Types

Special Data Types