The remainder of this book uses a file system application to illustrate various aspects of Ice. Throughout the book, we progressively improve and modify the application such that it evolves into an application that is realistic and illustrates the architectural and coding aspects of Ice. This allows us to explore the capabilities of the platform to a realistic degree of complexity without overwhelming you with an inordinate amount of detail early on.
Section 5.2 outlines the file system functionality,
Section 5.3 develops the data types and interfaces that are required for the file system, and
Section 5.4 presents the complete Slice definition for the application.
