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Greg Burri, 11/03/2009 05:20 PM

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h1. Protocols
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* [[Protocol core-core]]
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* [[Protocol core-GUI]]
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There is two main protocols, one between cores and one between GUI and core. Both used "protocol buffers":http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ for describing the exchanged messages.
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Each data sent over the network are formatted like this :
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<pre>
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<messageType:uint32><size:uint32><serializedMessage>
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</pre>
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Where :
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* _messageType_ is a number which determine the message type, more information in the proto files.
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* _size_ is the size of the following serialized message.
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* _serializedMessage_ is the data serialized by protocol buffer.