SFS thread

[ndesy]

Hello all,

I have developed a bot engine to simulate heavy population on our application. It's small java app which open sockets to SFS in order to simulate the flash client. It's working fine. I have now been mandated to tranform the app into a SFS extension to have a single entity.

Now it's time to ask the question. Is there a restricted thread to dispatch event to the client or it can be done from any specific thread? I know SFS use a thread pool but I'm not sure if it's safe to communicate with my currently working extension from an external thread.

Thoughts?

[orthiac]

Not sure if it will work for you but as of SFS 1.6.3, you can simulate a user connection with the new createNPC method. Combine that with a scheduler and you may be able to do something all local to the Server.

Just a thought.

[Menser]

Heya-

Maybe its just me, maybe i misunderstand.

But wouldnt having this simulation app be an extension on the server adversely affect the results since the "fake client" is itself eating up some of the server apps cpu cycles?

like i said, maybe im crazy...

_-Menser-_

[Lapo]

I have developed a bot engine to simulate heavy population on our application. It's small java app which open sockets to SFS in order to simulate the flash client. It's working fine. I have now been mandated to tranform the app into a SFS extension to have a single entity.

You could look into our Java API, they provide full access to all client side functionality --> http://www.smartfoxserver.com/labs/API/

Now it's time to ask the question. Is there a restricted thread to dispatch event to the client or it can be done from any specific thread? I know SFS use a thread pool but I'm not sure if it's safe to communicate with my currently working extension from an external thread.

I am not following. Are you talking about your (SFS) server side code?
If so, this document will clarify -> http://www.smartfoxserver.com/docs/docP ... Safety.htm