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[java] Servers........

Started by SPAR Sep 14, 2000 at 11:25 PM 2 replies 600+ views

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Sep 14, 2000 at 11:25 PM

I am wondering how to keep a server application running 24 hours a day, so that it is always available to a game. I understand how to operate the client and server once the server is listening to a port, but my question is how to you remotely invoke the server application to start running so that you may connect to it with a client application? thanks SPAR1

felonius

Sep 15, 2000 at 5:22 AM

The standard way of does this is the have the server listening at some standard port all the time.

When a client connect through this port they use that connection to agree on some other session specific port, disconnect and then reconnect again at the new port - using a new thread to listen at the new port.

You cannot "invoke" a not running server program.

Jacob Marner

SPAR

Sep 15, 2000 at 12:10 PM

Thanks, unfortunately that''s what I thought.

If I find a way to do it I will let everyone know then.

l8er

Jim_Ross

Sep 16, 2000 at 5:46 PM

normally, when a server program is run it doesn''t stop until explicitly instructed to stop. So, once the server program is running it should run until the computer loses power.

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