Server programming

[Tobias Heintz]

I am intending to write a server in Java which will be connecting three or
more programs running on different machines. Speed is very important here,
since there can be very many requests in a short time.
My question now is: Which is the most efficient (fastest) way to connect
threads with each other ?
I will have one thread receiving the incoming requests and then a couple
more processing them. Should i use PipeInputStreams and PipeOutputStreams,
or should i just call a function in the processing thread and pass the data
as an argument ? Another way would be to store all incomping data in a Vector
(or ArrayList) and then invoke the notify() method on the thread to show
it that new data is available...
Any help would be greatly appreciated !

Thanks
Tobi

[Carlos Saltos]

Hi Tobias !

I will recomend Java RMI for that ... take a look at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/rmi/index.html
... and of course if you need a strong structure you can use JMS and EJB
on J2EE Applications Servers on a clustering, but as you mention, you are
concern about the performance, so Java RMI will do. On the other hand think
that performance is not all and use a solid foundation like J2EE could be
better and easier.

Best regards,

Carlos Saltos
Infoobar
IT Manager
http://www.infoobar.com/

"Tobias Heintz" <cybot2000@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
>I am intending to write a server in Java which will be connecting three
or
>more programs running on different machines. Speed is very important here,
>since there can be very many requests in a short time.
>My question now is: Which is the most efficient (fastest) way to connect
>threads with each other ?
>I will have one thread receiving the incoming requests and then a couple
>more processing them. Should i use PipeInputStreams and PipeOutputStreams,
>or should i just call a function in the processing thread and pass the data
>as an argument ? Another way would be to store all incomping data in a Vector
>(or ArrayList) and then invoke the notify() method on the thread to show
>it that new data is available...
>Any help would be greatly appreciated !
>
>Thanks
>Tobi