Using network filters
Network filters are another Coherence feature that can be used both with TCMP and Coherence*Extend, but which is much more applicable in a latter case. They are used to modify the contents of the messages exchanged between the client and the proxy server before they are transmitted over the wire.
Two common scenarios that are supported out of the box are encryption and compression. Encryption can be either password or private key-based, and is very useful when you want to address the security concerns described earlier and make network sniffing a non-issue. Unfortunately, as of Coherence 3.5, encryption is supported only by Java clients, and not by .NET and C++ Coherence*Extend clients.
This will hopefully be addressed in a ...
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