Distributed System

Question

I am looking to create a distributed framework in Java and need some help sorting out the implementation of a client/manager/worker situation as described in my pseudocode b

Answer 1

• Q. How do I differentiate between a client connection and worker connection?
• A. Use two ports, one to listen to connections from workers and one from clients.
• Q. How do I keep track of the number of workers currently connected?
• A. Have a registration mechanism (maybe in a list of workers) to register/deregister each time a worker connects/disconnects.