In this chapter, we present the client-side Slice-to-Java mapping (see Chapter 12 for the server-side mapping). One part of the client-side Java mapping concerns itself with rules for representing each Slice data type as a corresponding Java type; we cover these rules in
Section 10.3 to
Section 10.10. Another part of the mapping deals with how clients can invoke operations, pass and receive parameters, and handle exceptions. These topics are covered in
Section 10.11 to
Section 10.13. Slice classes have the characteristics of both data types and interfaces and are covered in
Section 10.14. In
Section 10.16, we show how you can customize the Slice-to-Java mapping using metadata.
Section 10.17 describes asynchronous method invocation.
Section 10.18 lists the command-line options for the Slice-to-Java compiler and describes how to use the Slice compiler in ant projects. Finally,
Section 10.19 covers the use of Slice checksums in the Java mapping.
