this is may a litle bit early question but iam acctually thinking of making red5 working together with other servers.
thatfor i asked myself what would be the best solution that would give a perfect performance. i read in the roadmap about XML-RPC and XML-Sockets for version 0.7 are planned to be added to the featurelist and thought may it would be the best solution to use a internal interface in red 5 as soon as the xml rpc classes are added, but iam not sure what will give better performance and better results a socket or xml - rpc (iam here talking about server to server communication, not client server, the usage should be exchange of important datas (userdatas and messagedatas (XML) aswell)), a socket would be very uncommon for that, wouldent it? there would also be a way using just the different servers as standalone and just depend on the same database for userdatas, but i wrote myself a few versions of socketservers in java escpeccially for the use with a Flashclient and the problem in that case is that java needs a \0 (nullbyte) as a message terminator, when reading the streambuffer by line, if flash hangs up, disconnects for some reason(maybe usual due (24h)timeperiod by provider ) or if the java server for any other reason does not receive the terminating \0 the server stys listening to the client and the threads doesent stop or pause which causes the server former or later to die. i also tried it with bitwise reading the buffer which worked as far as there is no presistent datastream(a bigger file for example) than the performance is useless because u need to check the bufferlength, the string inside for a valid termination, delete the part of the string that was a message , if the bufferlength doesent change for a few seconds and there is no finished message transmission terminating inside the buffered string u need to ping the client wheter by IP wich may delivers wrong results or due a custum(webapp to client call) function u call on clientsite(eg. PING-PONG), just to prevent a silently dying server. in that case and also because i dislike the idea to open "2 socket" for each client, i would preffer a server to server interactive solultion and use just one stream for all datas, like i said iam not sure which would be the best way. It would be nice if others on the list give me some suggestion, may some inspiration aswell, well any kind of experience with the topic. Greetz Sascha _______________________________________________ Red5 mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org
