The following objectives were used in developing this implementation of RFC Class Libraries:

• Platform independent. ANSI C++ compliant.

• Major reduction in the effort to write an application for RFC.

• Execution speed comparable to that of the C-language RFC API.

• Minimum code size overhead.

• Easier conversion of existing C-language RFC applications to C++.

• Ability to leverage from the existing base of C-language RFC programming experience.

• Easier use of the RFC API with C++ than with C.

• Easier-to-use yet powerful abstractions of complicated operations such as the server application process loop, table management, and so forth.

• True RFC API for C++ that effectively uses C++ language features.

• Protect all data members of classes, only allow access through methods.