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Building a Sweet Forking Server in Java (benjamincoe.com)
4 points by Johnny_Heart on Dec 19, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



It looks great and I've seen it in action via Hack Wars. I was always curious about server creation and execution in many aspects. I have to agree, "There are technologies now like Erlang that are probably more suited for threaded servers" but, the game you've created using this architecture definitely does great and can handle a bit of a beating.


I designed the architecture I wrote about in this blog post a few years ago (in my 3rd year of university I believe) -- There are technologies now like Erlang that are probably more suited for threaded servers, but this design has worked pretty well for my online game.


Is it correct to call this a "forking" server? When I hear "fork" I think multi-process, not multi-thread.




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