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Generic Generic
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App-Server Application-Server targeted on games
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Google App Engine What do we mean with the word
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generic
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? We want to be able to run different games and the games shall be able
to be of different type.
The server is something like a application server designed to help to run
games.
A application server is different from a file or print server, which only
serves resources to the clients, it serves processing ability and time.
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Glassfish The most common type of application servers are webservers where you run
a web-application within the server.
The application-server handles all the network-/inter process-stuff and
offers hooks and helpers for your application to use the resources, some
examples for such web-application-servers are the Glassfish-Server which
allows you to run applications written in Java, or the Google App Engine
where you can run applications written in Python or some language which
runs in the Java Virtual Machine.
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Robot-App-Server But you can find specialized application servers within the industry where
one central server serves processing power for different independent robotic-cl
ients.
Or in Academia where one mainframe is used as a cerver for different clients
to run different applications which are doing havy calculations and return
the result to the clients.
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DB-Server You could too think of a database server as a application server.
You send it different
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scripts
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, e.g.
bis SQL queries or JavaScript, the server runs them and returns the evaluated
data to the clients.
It is perhaps not the best example but just so you see how different applicatio
n servers can be.
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One of the purposes of this thesis is to investigate how we can make a game
server as generic, that is so that you are not limited to just one game,
as possible.
Some important helpers which are needed in network games and therefore
should be offered by a generic game server are for example the abstraction
of the network layer, a data store, and others, which will be discussed
more in detail later in the thesis.
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Different Games on same server Different game types on same server
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