generic application server

report.lyx

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 Generic
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-App-Server
+Application-Server targeted on games
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-\begin_layout Enumerate
+\begin_layout Standard
-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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-\begin_layout Enumerate
+\begin_layout Standard
-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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-\begin_layout Enumerate
+\begin_layout Standard
-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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-\begin_layout Enumerate
+\begin_layout Standard
-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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 \begin_layout Enumerate