"Eugene Mayevski" wrote:

> Hello!
> You wrote on Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:17:05 -0800:
>
> M> The server is sending out multiple commands in a very short while. On
> M> the client side these are not being received correctly. The commands are
> M> XML messages. The problem is that the client is either not receiving the
> M> XML as a whole message or, the xommands are received concatenated to one
> M> another (as <message1><message2><part of message3>).
> M> This is causing havoc on the client side. Any ideas how this can be
> M> handled?
>
> Without knowing exactly how you send the messages it's hard to say. Assuming
> that you are using TCP sockets, I can say the following:
>
> one of great misconceptions of programmers is that they believe TCP
> communication to be message-based. It's not. It's stream-based. If you need
> messages, you need to manually merge and split messages that you receive or
> use some message-oriented middleware. You can check MsgConnect
> (http://www.msgconnect.com/) which eliminates the problem.
>
> With best regards,
> Eugene Mayevski
>