TCP is a good choice for communication if you want to know that your message got to where it was going, as opposed to UDP where the communication is fire-and-forget. When a message is sent, the recipient sends an acknowledgement that the message arrived successfully. If you don’t get an acknowledgement, you have a pretty … [Read more…]
Recently I had an issue where I was trying to create a stubbed/mocked version of a SOAP service locally. I ran my web application, my client connected, my service got the request, sent back the response and… the client didn’t like it. Not sure why… everything should be working. So I wanted to look at … [Read more…]
Sometimes I want to unit test the pieces of my code that are close to the transport layer, but often they are so close to the metal that it is hard to separate them. There’s really not a great way to abstract out the communication layer, so you just have to bite the bullet and … [Read more…]