| server | accepts connections from clients, normally involving some form of validation to ensure that the client is allowed to connect. |  |
| can also be a client at the same time | |
| continues to serve currently connected clients after it has stopped listening | |
| has definition A program or process that, in response to requests from clients, provides some kind of service | |
| disconnects clients - the client may request disconnection by sending a message to the server, the client may just disappear suddenly due to the client crashing or the network connecting going down, or the server may force a client to disconnect if the client is not behaving well | |
does concurrently - Waiting for interactions with the user who is in charge of the server, and responding as necessary
- Waiting for clients to try to connect and establishing connections as needed
- For each connected client, waiting for messages coming from that client, and responding when messages arrive
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| is a subtopic of 3.4 - The Client-Server Architecture | |
| is a kind of process^2 | |
| is a kind of program | |
| keeps a record of the connection while a client is connected | |
| listens for clients attempting to connect | |
| may be accessed by many clients simultaneously | |
| may be located on the same computer as its clients or on a different computer | |
| must be able to handle connections from many clients | |
| must be able to respond to messages from all the connected clients | |
| must initialize itself so that it is able to provide the required service | |
| reacts to messages from connected clients: performing computations or obtaining information, and normally sending some information back to the requesting client and perhaps sending a message to another client or broadcasting messages to many clients at once. | |
| stops listening if the number of connected clients becomes too high, or prior to shutting down | |
| terminates when necessary, which involves such actions as notifying each client before terminating its connection | |
| usually operates with at least two concurrent threads, and in general n+2, threads where n is the number of connected clients | |
| will not accept new client connections if it has stopped listening | |
| program | is written by programmer | |
| should follow consistent guidelines that make the program easy to read | |
| process^2 | see also process | |
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