C++ Can Be Easy: Service-Oriented programming with Areg SDK

C++ has a reputation: fast, powerful… but not exactly “easy.”
Especially when it comes to making components talk to each other.

Normally, when you program Inter-Process Communication (IPC) or multithreading, you would have to:

• Create threads and message queues
• Open sockets or pipes to send and receive messages
• Write serialization/deserialization
• Dispatch messages and call callbacks manually
• Configure IPC manually

With Areg SDK, you don’t.

Here’s what calling a service looks like:

// Consumer calls Provider as if it were local
consumer.requestData("Hello");

and the message on remove Service Provider running in other thread or other process is triggered automatically:

void ServiceProvider::requestData(const String & data) {
    // do business logic here; if needed, response on call
    responseData(true);
}

That’s it. Behind the scenes:

• Areg spins up the threads
• Routes the request (local or remote)
• Handles synchronization
• Returns the response asynchronously

You write business logic, not boilerplate. See small C++ working example of multithreading RPC.

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Why this matters

• Easy to learn → Start with one example, and you’re productive.
• Easy to scale → Works in the same thread, across processes, or even devices.
• Easy to debug → No fragile wiring to hunt down.

If you can write C++, you can build distributed apps — without touching sockets or race conditions.

👉 Try the 01_minimalrpc example for multithreading and 02_minimalipc. It’s less code than you think.