I see your requirement as a collection of node which needs to communicate (as like in cluster) rather a client-server model. Open a socket at each node and let them communicate when ever & in the way they want. In a client server model you have to keep connection alive for a long time (which will be idle for most of the times), should think about number of client that connects to server at a time, server capacity etc... In short, I feel treating them as cluster of nodes make sense and makes your application better & cleaner.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Mikael <mikael-arons...@telia.com> wrote: > 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 ? > >
