Laying down the foundations with an SDK

The first step is to implement the classes that will be shared between our application and the workers. To do so, we are going to rely on a custom SDK. If you need to refresh your memory about this technique, take a look at Chapter 8Animations-- It's Alive, Alive!.

As a reminder, here is the diagram describing the SDK:

Laying down the foundations with an SDK

Let's describe the job of each of these components:

  • The Message component encapsulates a piece of information that is exchanged between the application and the worker
  • The JobRequest component contains the necessary information to dispatch a proper job to a worker
  • The JobResult component contains ...

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