So now that I have a custom game server connected to a message-based infrastructure, I need a way to send messages back and forth to other parts of the system. Messages going to and from the custom game server are transmitted as JSON given that the format is easy to work with, supported in all […]
Read MorePreviously I discussed how to write a Server which uses a persistent WebSocket Client, using the Netty framework to make things go. Netty is configured through establishing a Channel Pipeline, which is great if you need a very flexible system for handling network input and output. For most projects however, this sort of power can […]
Read MoreI’ve been working on a system involving connecting custom game servers to a larger, message based and multi-tenant infrastructure. The custom game server I was writing requires a persistent connection to the larger system, since messages originate from all directions (from/to client, from other servers, from the infrastructure, from thin air…). And while the code […]
Read MoreOn the MMO I’m working on, we do quite a bit of service monitoring via jetty. Things like having a URL that reports back version information for a component, or a page full of statistics showing recent activity, or a way to trigger a self-check in a component to determine if the component is sane […]
Read MoreI?ve talked a few times about how the best code you can write is code you never write. One of the major places I end up seeing developer writing code that they don?t need to write is when parsing XML. A word of caution before I go into how to not have to parse XML! […]
Read MoreIKVM.NET is something I?ve been playing with for a while now, but seeing this awesome trailer today reminded me that I should write a post about it. I always considered Java to be some kind of parallel universe compared to .NET where a lot of interesting lessons can be learned. I never did any serious […]
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