EpServerEngine

Visual C++ WinSock Server/Client Engine

DESCRIPTION

EpServerEngine is a Visual C++ software framework that supports the development of server/client application under a MIT License. It handles all the initialize/usage WinSock library, which is time consuming task. EpServerEngine supports Visual C++ 2005/2008/2010/2012. Source can be downloaded at EpServerEngine

FEATURES

• Easy to build server/client application.
  • Just implement Packet Structure and Packet Parsing routine for your server/client, and EpServerEngine will do rest for you.
  • No more nasty initialization of WinSock and painful Winsock operation to build server/client application.
  • No need to spend the time for handling thread synchronization.
• Supports variadic length packets using Packet Container
• Supports full ASCII/Unicode development environment

What is in the EpServerEngine?

• General

  1. Base Packet Parser
  2. Packet
  3. Packet Container
  4. Server Object List

• Client Side

  1. TCP
     • Base Client Class
  2. UDP
     • Base UDP Client Class

• Server Side

  1. TCP
     • Base Server
     • Base Server Worker
  2. UDP
     • Base UDP Server
     • Base UDP Server Worker

DOCUMENTATION

For detailed documentation, please download the full document EpServerEngine Documentation.chm.

If the documentation file is not visible after finishing download,

• Solution 1.
  1. Double-click the .chm file.
  2. In the Open File-Security Warning dialog box, click to clear the Always ask before opening this file check box.
  3. Click Open.
• Solution 2.
  1. Right-click the CHM file, and then click Properties.
  2. Click Unblock.
  3. Double-click the .chm file to open the file.

USAGE

To find the usage examples, please see the wiki page

WARNING

Warning: This framework is NOT free from the 10K problem, since it is creating one thread per connection. (There are many frameworks out there which use IOCP to avoid the 10K problem.) This may be sufficient for small network where performance is NOT very important( which was most of my case). If you worry about this 10K problem, please check out EpserverEngine.cs, which is a asynchronous light-weight IOCP TCP template server framework in C#.

REFERENCE

• EpLibrary 2.0

LICENSE

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Woong Gyu La <juhgiyo@gmail.com>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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