Goal

Our primary goal is to come up with an architecture that:

• does NOT depend or make any assumptions on the system it is running on.

• does NOT make any hard-coded assumptions on the resources available to the system, such

  as dynamic memory allocation, exceptions, RTTI, etc...

• has an efficient way to parse the incoming message and dispatch it to an

  appropriate handler. The runtime complexity shouldn't exceed O(log(n)),

  where n is a total number of messages in the protocol.

• provides quick, easy and straightforward way of adding new messages to the

  protocol.

• has as little connection as possible between the application level messages

  and wrapping transport data, which allows easy substitution of the latter if

  need arises.

Our ultimate goal would be creation of a generic C++(11) library, that can assist in implementation of many binary communication protocols. Such library will provide all the necessary types and classes, usage of which will make the implementation of the required communication protocol easy, quick and straightforward process of using simple declarative statements. It will significantly reduce the amount of boilerplate code and boost the development process.