Well, the difference between a server and a client is that server is
waiting for client to connect. Once the connection is established each end
of the connection can send data asynchronously.


2011/11/10 Mikael <mikael-arons...@telia.com>

> I need my application to be a TCP server (almost), clients will connect,
> send one message to the server,
> receive an answer back and then the client will be silent, at specific
> intervals the server should send a
> message out to the client and get a response back, is this possible to do ?
>
> The first thing that crossed my mind would be to send out my message in
> the sessionIdle() method,
> and then the answer would come in as a normal request that I could handle,
> but in this case there is
> no response to send back to the client.
>
> Is this something that can be done in MINA or should I skip this and just
> use ordinary sockets for this ?
>
>


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Jean-Yves LINET

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