Re: keepalive in socket server program

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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