Re: keepalive in socket server program

[Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
> :-)
>
> Regards,
>
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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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