Hello Brian, > I'm eager now to try ICS.
Good :) > Out of curiosity, is the behavior of the D5 TServerSocket (in non-blocking > mode) the same as ICS? I've used the D5 component in the past and have run > into some problems that led me to believe it was not serializing properly. Dont know, but I have used it one time and it was slow, some bugs and no support. Here you will have exellent support. > Would a TTimer OnTimer event in the main application thread mess with the > message pump? No you can use Timers as many as you like. --- Rgds, Wilfried [TeamICS] http://www.overbyte.be/eng/overbyte/teamics.html http://www.mestdagh.biz Friday, August 18, 2006, 15:54, Brian Sheeres wrote: > I'm eager now to try ICS. > Out of curiosity, is the behavior of the D5 TServerSocket (in non-blocking > mode) the same as ICS? I've used the D5 component in the past and have run > into some problems that led me to believe it was not serializing properly. > Would a TTimer OnTimer event in the main application thread mess with the > message pump? > Thanks!! > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Francois Piette > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:46 PM > To: ICS support mailing > Subject: Re: [twsocket] Sever architecture >> Imagine a server with many concurrent connections but that only allows >> one connection at a time to submit a request, access/manipulate data >> and then send the results back to all other connections. In other >> words all > requests >> (regardless of which connection it's coming from) must be serialized. > This is very easy to do with ICS :-) >> Is the proper architecture to have one thread contain all the >> connections and then, when an socket event fires, assign the request >> to a worker > thread >> (from a pool) which in turn attempts to access a critical section of > another >> thread (the data manipulation thread)? > Not at all. Simply use a TWSocketServer in the main thread and no worker > thread at all. All requests will be automatically serialized provided you > never call the message pump and process the requests in one blocking > function call. > Contribute to the SSL Effort. Visit > http://www.overbyte.be/eng/ssl.html > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Author of ICS (Internet Component Suite, freeware) > Author of MidWare (Multi-tier framework, freeware) http://www.overbyte.be > -- > To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket > Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
