====== Amicima Interface and Implementation Specification ======



The technology used for UDP communication is MFP, provided by [[http://www.amicima.org/|Amicima]]. Developer documentation can be found here :
  * [[mobj_readme|MObj README]]
  * [[mfp_readme|MFP README]]
  * [[secure_MFP_desc|The Secure Media Flow Protocol description]]

===== MFP =====


==== License ====

MFP library is licensed under [[http://www.answers.com/topic/gnu-general-public-license|GNU General Public License (GPL)]].
Custom changes made to MFP library by AllPeers are listed in CVS in allpeers/p2p/mfp/mfp_3rd.patch and allpeers/p2p/mfp/mfp_3rd_patch.README

==== Implemented interfaces ====

  * [[apIAcceptSocketNotifier]]
  * [[apIConnectionMechanism]]
  * [[apIConnectionMechanismListener]]
  * [[apIListenSocketService]]
  * [[apISocketAcceptCallback]]
  * [[apISocketStatusCallback]]
  * [[apISocketWrapper]]

==== MFP Testing and Preferences ====
MFP can be configured by adding following lines to prefs.js : 
  * 'user_pref("allpeers.enable_mfp", true);' to enable MFP which is currently disabled by default.
  * 'user_pref("allpeers.mfp_approach", <pref_type>);' sets connection approach type to pref_type which is a number described in apIMFPService.idl.

Instructions on how to test MFP and NAT traversal are [:Testing_MFP: here].