June 1999
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
8h 21m
English
Each user of the messenger service is represented by a distributed data structure made up of the following:
An account entry that holds the username and password.
A session entry that holds information about the user's current session and exists in the space only as long as the user is online.
A “friends list” entry that maintains the user's list of friends.
A channel that holds a user's messages.
So basically a user is represented in the space by three entries and a channel (like the channels we developed in Chapter 5). These pieces are held together by a common, unique username field: For instance, the user “duke” will have the value “duke” in the username field of his account entry, friends list entry, and ...
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