thanks for the reply .. are there any other servers/hosts that provide a near real time client/ server communication?? Plus, i don't exactly get your part about the long polling and 30 simultanous requests limit .. can you elaborate more regards,
On Mar 1, 4:55 pm, A1programmer <derrick.simp...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can use memcache to help speed up access to the DB. > > All communication over GAE has to be done using HTTP... So, that makes > it harder to things like pushing real time messages to the clients. > You can use a technique called "Long Polling", but requests must > return in 30 seconds, and currently, applications have a max of 30 > simultaneous requests. > > Basically, the request starts a thread that sleeps most of the time, > waiting to return data to the client when it's ready. One the client > receives the update, it makes another long polling request. > > Hope this helps. > > - Derrick > > On Feb 28, 2:58 am, Ahmed Khalifa <derkhal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > hi all, > > I am writing a multiplayer flash arcade game in actionscript .. i have > > discovered GAE recently and thought that it might be a very good > > choice for building and hosting my server .. > > however, i realize that arcade games need an almost realtime > > responsive capacity from the server .. besides the server has to be > > looping on receiving position object of Client A, storing it in a DB, > > Fetching Client B position object and sending it back .. this will > > result in a huge number of DB requests either storing, fetching or > > deleting which will quickly exhaust the CPU quota for the > > application .. > > > So, I was wondering if any one had an idea or a reference to come > > around these two problems of real time response and CPU exhaustion by > > DB calls > > > best regards, > > A. Khalifa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
