Programming GPS and OpenStreetMap Applications with Java

11.7. Server Tuning 153

Since the ROAF aims at systems of larger scale, the server should use

a more general approach to set off a large number of client calls with a

decent response time. A worker queue or worker thread is a general term

for a sequential chain of tasks usually worked off in one thread. This

could be useful for the sequential order of rounds and moves in a board

game. Another approach is a thread pool, which creates a (given) number

of (worker) threads waiting to process a number of client calls in parallel.

This solution is faster than a single worker queue, although the calls are

processed without a specified order.

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