Jeff has previously blogged about using the cache to perform "out of band" processing on his websites, however I was wondering what other techniques people are using to process these sorts of tasks? ...
Does anybody know how to receive (how to know that you received) out-of-band data with Java sockets? In particular I've read the documentation for sendUrgentData and setOOBInline which states that: Note, only limited support is provided for handling incoming urgent data. In particular, no notification of incoming urgent data is provi...
I just looked into wikipedia's entry on out-of-band data and as far as I understand, OOB data is somehow flagged more important and treated as ordinary data, but transmitted in a seperate stream, which profoundly confuses me. The actual question would be (besides "Could someone explain what OOB data is?"): I'm writing a unix applicatio...