Sending events to an ECS Engine requires you to instantiate an ECS_Engine object for the appropriate instance of ECS Engine you want to send events to. The engine object acts as a handle by which you can manipulate the ECS Engine itself.

You must also create an instance of the ECS_Event class and set its PDU to contain the event itself.

To send the events you call the processEvent() method on the engine handle, passing it the ECS_Event object.

These steps are normally enclosed in a loop and augmented with facilities for acquiring a series of events from the network.

The following source code illustrates the basic process:

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while (gets(pdu)) 
{
    event.setPdu(pdu);

    cout << "Sending event " << ++count;
    cout << ".\t" << event.getPdu() << endl;

    ECS_Engine engine(instance);

    int32 status = engine.processEvent(event);

    if (status == ECS_SUCCESS) 
    {
        cout << "Event successfully sent to engine " << instance << endl;
    }	
    else 
    {
        cout << "Error (" << status << ") sending event to engine "
	  << instance << endl;
    }
}
return 0;