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TCP/IP Application Architectures

The approach supported by the LLP components supplied with Chameleon represents a specific TCP/IP socket architecture, which is:

• Asynchronous Event Driven;
• Non-blocking;
• Single threaded; and
• Uses a message loop.

By no means is this the only valid way to architect a TCP/IP server or client application. Another approach might be having a single listening thread that spawns each connection onto its own thread with blocking socket calls. This is not an approach supported by the LLP components supplied with Chameleon. If you have a requirement for such an architecture, it will be necessary to implement the LLP protocol directly using a sockets implementation native to your environment.