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 ? > > -- Jean-Yves LINET