A distributed application model where tasks are distributed between the server (service or resource provider) and clients (service consumer), normally connected through a network
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High-Load Java Server for Multiplayer
I am making a multiplayer game. Now I am trying to choose the technology to connect the android devices to the server. The clients run on Android, and the game is MMORPG. I would like to write the ...
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Design pattern for client/server sessions?
Are there any common patterns or general guidance I can learn from for how to design a client/server system where the both the client and server must maintain some kind per-client session state?
I've ...
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Better server to client communication mechanism over HTTP
I have a single server with several clients. I want to push messages to a particular client at a given time. Clients should not polling to the server. what are good patterns and practices to solve ...
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Client side authentication through signatures instead of passwords
I want to save some user-generated data with some signature of the user that generated it (let's say that the user has to fill some forms with some data and I want him to sign the written data).
The ...
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Best Practices for calculating data in GIS-like web application
Let's assume that we have a simple GIS-like application, which presents (using Google Maps or anything similar) recorded tracks. Each track consists of points (data portions) with geo-data and ...
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Java developing server-client solutions [duplicate]
I am trying to get a job as Java developer.
I have been developing web pages with Java for a while, but now trying to go to another path and develop server-client solutions.
In this specific company ...
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How do I scale a server application? [closed]
I have to work on a UDP Client Server application, where for now there are 40 clients.
In the present scenario the server should be able to communicate (send and receive data) with all the clients if ...
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Where should I keep the central database and which database would be appropriate? [closed]
I am developing a gym software in C# as a window application but need to connect it to a central server so that people can install it on their PC's and connect to the same database. I want to package ...
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A simple definition of client-server [duplicate]
I'm looking for a simple definition of the concept of “client-server”
I'd like something similar to this definition of state.
... That "thing/information" that you need to remember is called ...
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Handle invalid text on server or fix on client in Client-Server application
I have developed a protocol for a Client-Server application and developed it in conjunction with another developer. The client application at this moment is written for the mobile phone.
The ...
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Application protocols and state machines: designing a complicated server
I'm designing and prototyping a server that has the following characteristics:
during the daemon's initialization it spawns nine "manager" servers, each of which solves one part of the overall ...
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What are the advantages of a client/server architecture in webapplications as opposed to a server generated frontend application
In our company, we need to build a web interface onto an embedded Linux platform. I kind of see 2 options: You use a technology where the HTML and JavaScript is generated on the server side (Think ...
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How to verify data from localStorage on a server
On my mobile app, I am storing the username of a logged in person, and downloading some data for the given/stored username. When the user checks for updates to his data content on the server, the ...
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Design question about a concurrent forking server
I'm in the early stages of designing a client/server application. The clients will be batch programs that read a file of customer contact data (name, address, email address, phone no's) and pass ...
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How to plan a client/server app networking architecture to cope with multiple unrelated exchanges of data?
I'm coding a server/client application pair in Java, as I learn about it. I have basic functionality of sending a message to the server and parsing it but in thinking about the big picture of their ...
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Client-Server connection response timeout issues
User creates a folder in client and in the client-side code I hit an API to the server to make this persistent for that user. But in some cases, my server is so busy that the request timesout. The ...
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Suggestions for connecting .NET WPF GUI with Java SE Server
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We are building a Java (SE) trading application which will be monitoring market data and sending trade messages based on the market data, and also on user defined configuration parameters.
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Thin client Web browser?
Many times i have heard people saying that a particular hardware to be running a thin client web browser. But from the definition of "thin-client", doesnt all browser qualify as a thin-client? as all ...
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What topics do I need to study for *web* client server programming? [closed]
I know about client server programming through sockets in C/C++.
What topics do I need to study for website related client server programming?
The database which we'll be using will be either MySQL ...
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How to update dependency during runtime in my .NET application?
I have a server-client application. Sometimes the server is updated which requires some DLLs in the client to be updated as well (The DLLs are the dependencies of the main executable). For now, we ...
