Protocol Agnostic Request Response Pattern

Abstract

A system and method for facilitating communications over a protocol is provided. The system includes a class factory that holds identifiers associated with determining which, if any, registered protocol object creator should be employed to create a protocol object. The protocol object implements an abstract network protocol base class. The protocol object is employed to abstract details of communicating over a protocol and to provide a byte stream interface to communications occurring over the protocol, while removing protocol specific code from an application program. The method includes creating an instance of a protocol object from a source of registered protocol handlers based on a request to communicate over a protocol and using a base class API to communicate over the protocol through the protocol object.

1 . A data packet adapted to be transmitted between two or more computer processes, the data packet comprising:
 information operable to facilitate selecting one from a plurality of protocol object creators.   
   
   
       2 . A data packet adapted to be transmitted between two or more computer processes, the data packet comprising:
 byte stream data produced by a protocol object, the byte stream data having at least one of a format specific to a protocol and one or more headers and/or footers specific to the protocol removed from a first data read from a resource.   
   
   
       3 . The data packet of  claim 2 , further comprising:
 a second data having at least one of a format specific to the protocol and one or more headers and/or footers specific to the protocol added to a byte stream provided by a computer program.