The AB Suite Host Responder Interface uses standard console input and output which allows you to define your own handler application for host messages. Following is the sequence of events that occurs during a build:
The Host informs Builder that a waiting entry has been encountered which requires a response to continue.
The Builder calls a user-defined responder (if one has been defined and configured) to process the request.
If the responder can handle the response then it returns the string to pass back to the host. If it cannot, then it returns an empty string and Builder waits for the entry to be resolved using a standard interactive Host session.
The Host Responder is a set of code which can be read from the STDIN and written to the STDOUT. The responder class can be written in C#, Visual Basic .NET, Jscript.NET, Perl, or Java. Refer to Examples of Host Responder Class for examples of Host Responder class.