Oracle ATG Web Commerce includes a standard HTTP request-handling mechanism for implementing HTML-based interfaces to applications. Your applications might want to create additional TCP servers to handle other types of requests from outside sources. These servers all run within the same process.

The class atg.server.tcp.RequestServer provides a mechanism for building TCP servers. When the RequestServer starts, it creates a server socket that waits on a specific port. It also creates a number of atg.server.tcp.RequestServerHandler objects that run in their own separate threads. The RequestServer then waits for incoming connections, and each incoming connection is passed to a free RequestServerHandler to be handled. If no RequestServerHandler objects are free, the RequestServer waits until one is free. When a RequestServerHandler is done handling a request, the handler is returned to the pool of handlers waiting for requests until it is asked to handle another request. A RequestServer reuses RequestServerHandler objects between requests—it does not create and destroy RequestServerHandler objects on each request. This enables high throughput for request-based services that require high performance.

To use the RequestServer class, you must extend the RequestServerHandler and implement the handleRequest method to actually handle the request. You must also extend RequestServer and implement the createHandler method to create instances of your RequestServerHandler subclass. When you configure a RequestServer instance, you specify the port and number of handlers that are created.


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