> From: Symeon Breen > ...you are consuming a socket service, and not > accepting connections, - we do this kind of thing all > the time using phantoms. > > Lets say your batch of transactions is in a file...
I agree with Symeon, phantoms are probably your answer. While I haven't benchmarked a solution I can easily picture a scenario where your primary process just writes transactions, and several phantoms are polling the transaction file for something to do. As each phantom grabs a batch of items it's working independently from others. It's the grocery store checkout lane model where the cashier says "I can help you over here", and the more lanes that are open, the faster everyone gets out the door. Your existing socket code can make multiple outbound calls to the remote server, as long as that server can handle multiple calls on the same socket port and fork them off for processing. That's not your concern but of course it's a factor, and you have to know how many client processes you can expect to process simultaneously. With the grocery store analogy, it doesn't matter how many checkout lanes are open if there is only one person running around to get price checks. You're apparently OK with sockets but to avoid DBMS-specific socket implementations I generally offload such processing to a middle tier. So the MV app simply writes to a file, the external process extracts and handles the request, then writes a response back to another file. The BASIC app knows nothing about sockets, remote servers, or any such detail, it simply writes and reads data, which is what a database is good at - and this is more within the comfort zone of most MV developers. I can share more info about such a solution for anyone who is interested. HTH T Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula R&D sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products worldwide, and provides related development services remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
