By Patrick Smacchia
ISBN 0-9766132-2-0
Jan 2006 (896 pages)

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... network. These messages are relayed through broadcasting to reach all potential clients of the service. The clients also have at their disposition two messages called probe and resolve to launch the search of a service on the network. To limit excessive use of broadcast bandwidth, WS-Discovery allo...

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Returns the angle between the positive axis and the vector which connects the origin to the (x,y) point. Output values are in the range [ -p ; p ].

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...ling; The idea of object pooling is to recycle objects so that they can serve several clients consecutively. The cost of the construction and destruction of an object is then divided by the number of clients served by the object. The pool holds the content of objects which are not currently serving ...

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...cal memory space to store the produced information. In general, we do not forget to protect this space between concurrent accesses of the producer and consumer. We forget more often that the producer must make sure that a consumer has in fact read the old information before producing new information...

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...hardware to execute it (processor, RAM, CPUs, ) you obtain a performance gain proportional to the hardware added. In practice, we observe that the addition of hardware to execute an application does not necessarily create a performance gain. In fact, several bottlenecks still remain at various level...