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spring-integration-samples/intermediate/tcp-client-server-multiplex/README.md
Gary Russell ea9a89d820 INTSAMPLES-14 Tcp Collaborating Adapters Sample
Add a sample showing how to use collaborating channel adapters
for high performance.
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tcp-client-server-multiplex
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If this is your first experience with the spring-integrtion-ip module, start with the **tcp-client-server** project in the basic folder.
That project uses outbound and inbound tcp gateways for communication. As discussed in the Spring Integration
Reference Manual, this has some limitations for performance. If a shared socket (single-use="false") is used,
only one message can be processed at a time (on the client side); we must wait for the response to the
current request before we can send the next request. Otherwise, because only the payload is sent over
tcp, the framework cannot correlate responses to requests.
An alternative is to use a new socket for each message, but this comes with a performance overhead.
The solution is to use 'Collaborating Channel Adapters' (see SI Reference Manual). In such a scenario,
we can send multiple requests before a response is received. This is termed multiplexing.
This sample demonstrates how to configure collaborating channel adapters, on both the client and
server sides, and one technique for correlating the responses to the corresponding request.