One thread per client. Doable?

Question

I\'m writing a Java server which uses plain sockets to accept connections from clients. I\'m using the fairly simple model where each connection has its own thread reading f

Answer 1

I think a better approach is to not handle threads yourself. Create a pool (ThreadExecutor or some other stuff) and simple dispatch work to your pool.

Of course, I think asynchronous I/O will make it better and faster, but will help you with socket and networking problems. Only. When your threads block because of I/O, the JVM will put it to sleep and change for another thread until the blocking I/O return. But this will block only the thread. Your processor will continue to run and start to proccess other thread. So, minus the time to create a thread, the way you use I/O not affect not much your model. If you do not create threads (using a pool) your problem is solved.