Services

Writing Skinware Services

Before reading these tutorials, make sure you have read the user applications tutorial. Skinware services normally require sensor data from Skinware as well, in which case it is beneficial to learn how to acquire sensor data in the first place, following the said tutorial.

With Skinware, an application provides a service, through writer threads, and other applications attach to that service and acquire its results through reader threads.

These tutorials show both how to provide a service, and how to use one. You could use a sample emulation driver provided in the drivers tutorial to generate data, so that you can verify the applications built here with that.

1. All About Services: See how the writers and the readers interact and in what modes they can operate.
2. Service Providers in Skinware: See how the service providers can interact with Skinware with details of a few of the available functions.
3. Service Users in Skinware:: See how the service users can interact with Skinware with details of a few of the available functions.
4. A Complete Service Provider: Build up a sample service that provides basic processing of the sensor data.
5. A Complete Service User: Build up a sample service that attaches to the service built in the previous item.