Apple Network Setup - Manual (Page 14)

C H A P T E R 1
About Network Setup
14 Inside the Network Setup Library
remove support for legacy preferences files as soon as possible. Figure 1-3
shows the future Network Setup architecture.
Figure 1-3 Future Network Setup architecture
In the future Network Setup architecture, all developers, applications that
manipulate network preferences will be required to use the Network Setup
programming interface. If you have an application that manipulates legacy
preferences files directly, to guarantee future compatibility you must update it
to use the Network Setup programming interface.
Inside the Network Setup Library 1
Figure 1-4 shows the structure of the Network Setup library itself and its
relationship to the applications that call it. This structure is mostly irrelevant to
programmers who call the programming interface — Network Setup acts like a
“black box”—- but it helps to explain how Network Setup works.
Updated
protocol
stacks
Network Setup library
TCP/IP
Protocol
Stack
TCP/IP
Protocol
Stack
TCP/IP
Protocol
Stack
Public interface
Network Setup database
Network Setup
aware applications
Network
control
panel
Network
Setup
scripting
Third-party
application