A transport is an event detection adapter which translates an external event into an internal NetKernel root request.

Graphical user interfaces are event driven systems - each action taken by a user while interacting with a GUI system (such as clicking, moving the mouse, etc.) creates an event. It is natural to think about a transport that adapts GUI event into internal NetKernel requests.

Examples

The PingPong game was written with a custom Java Swing GUI transport. The architecture, design and implementation are described in the PingPong Guide.