Multiple requests that arrive simulteneously can be served by a single channel, but they will not actually be executed simultaneously. Instead they will get queued until the FoxWeb Channel Broker assigns them to a free channel. Each channel can only serve a single request at a time.
Statement #2 simply tries to explain that you do not need to run the same number of channels as the maximum number of requests that you will ever receive at a time.
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Sent by Gia Luc on 03/15/2002 08:00:49 AM:
I'm a bit confused by the Foxweb documentation regarding channels. The documentation says :
1) A Foxweb channel is actually nother instance of the VFP portion of Foxweb.
2) Every user request starts a new foxweb.exe process.
3) Multiple simultaneous requests can be served by a single channel.
a) I must be missing something because (3) seems to contradict (2) ?
b) If simultaneous requests are served by a single channel, doesn't this cause possible conflicts ? For example, if for one request, a channel executes :
SET ORDER TO TAG downward
and the _same_ channel _simultaneous_ executes ( for another request ) :
SET ORDER TO TAG upward
Won't this clash with the first request, which will then use the 'upward' tag rather than the 'downward' tag ?