Re: keepalive in socket server program

Jeff,

Still too high level to allow someone to make a good suggestion. It sounds
like the voice picking software is proprietary as well and doesn't use any
standards? Or they don't want to set it up to use standards and just use
straight sockets?

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Richard,
The vendors server is going to be physically located at the same site that
the clients IBM i system.
The client is a distributer and the vendor is providing "voice picking"
service where the data for picking will be transferred from the i to their
server, then the pickers will use voice headsets will indicate what has
been picked for an order. That data will be sent back to the i from their
server via a socket program.
This software vendor was the clients choice for a voice picking solution,
and I need to provide the proper interface programs to make it work with
the existing software.


Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Richard Schoen <
Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Seems to me a simple RESTful web service call might be a better vehicle
for this, but I don't know your vendors technical abilities.

Your programming then becomes dead-simple rather than writing a socket
server app.

Not that socket servers are hard, but why in today's world of web

services

:-)

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message: 6
date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:34:59 -0400
from: Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: keepalive in socket server program

Alan, Nathan, Richard & Scott,
Thank you for the information.
At this time, there is only going to be one client.
I am going to use a single server job to receive the data and send it to

a

data queue for processing.
At some point, the data queue method may be to slow for the volume of

data

being received and I will have to look into another method.
The project that I am working on involves another software vendor, and
they are defining the interface specifications and requirements.
I will check with them as to exactly they will send as a keepalive and
what they want back.
As always, the information that I receive here in answer to my questions
has greatly improved my knowledge.

Thank you all for you help.


Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst


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