Major components

• Ref

The CapTP protocol is designed around E-style object references: promises/broken refs/far refs. This component is a reimplementation of the E ref system. The "Ref" object incorporates the functionality of the E "Ref" and "E" objects.

• Files: ref.js
• Data-E

The CapTP protocol needs a serialization system. Data-E is a lightweight and flexible serialization system designed with capability principles, and it is the choice for new implementations of CapTP.

• Files: uncallers.js datae.js Surgeon.js
• CapTP protocol

The CapTP protocol per se, given an ordered, reliable-delivery, private transport for CapTP abstract messages (which can be straightforwardly serialized), provides message passing between individual local and remote objects, implementing promises and further ordering guarantees.

• Files: captp*.js
• Transport

As yet unimplemented. This component is responsible for providing CapTP's assumed reliable ordered connection using HTTP messages.

Description of files

• src/: JavaScript code making up Caja-CapTP.
• *.js: Uncajoled JavaScript code. Do not load.
• *.out.js: (Built) Cajoled JavaScript code - intermediate files.
• everything.js: (Built) The complete Caja-CapTP module to actually use with your application: all code packed into one Caja module.
• _header.js and _footer.js: Support code for the packing trick.
• authorizer.js: Code included uncajoled in everything.js to construct the authorities Caja-CapTP needs to run: timed callback and network access.
• captp-NonceLocator.js: The CapTP NonceLocator object.
• captp.js: Miscellaneous smallish object definitions used by the CapTP subsystem.
• datae.js: The Data-E kits, which define concrete representations of object subgraphs (including the real objects).
• ref.js: The E-style reference implementation. Caja-CapTP clients need to use this, at least to wait for promises and shorten forwarders.
• sha1.js: SHA-1 implementation. Third-party code converted into a Caja module.
• Surgeon.js: The Data-E Surgeon.
• uncallers.js: Uncallers, environments, unenvs, and other support infrastructure for deSubgraphKit, the "actual objects" end of Data-E serialization.
• util.js: Miscellaneous utility code.
• test/:

The test suite for Caja-CapTP. Some of the test scripts include documentation. Note that the tests are built on the Updoc test framework for E, implemented by [E-on-JavaScript], and as such are written in E, not JavaScript. The differences are hopefully not too extreme. Note also that many of the tests have been copied from tests written for E implementations, since Ref, [Data-E], and CapTP are originally from E.

• *.live.xhtml: (Built) The Updoc test scripts converted into HTML+JavaScript documents which, when opened in a web browser, run the tests. Green bar and black text is good, anything else is a failure.
• call-uncall.updoc: Tests the builtin uncallers.
• captp-objects.updoc: Miscellaneous CapTP internals.
• captp-trace.updoc: Tests the tracing module used to test CapTP.
• datae.updoc: Tests the Data-E Kits (serialization formats).
• proxy.updoc: Tests the proxy facility (part of Ref).
• ref.updoc: Tests the E-style reference implementation (Ref).
• surgeon.updoc: Tests the Surgeon (high-level serialization tool). Contains discussion and examples of how to use a Surgeon.
• SwissTable.updoc: CapTP internals.
• test-util.js: JavaScript code to assist the test suite in things that cannot be readily done from the E/JavaScript bridge tools.