Communication Between Components

Each PortalProtect Ceptor Component uses the Peer2Peer communication method – this can be compared to RMI, in the sense that a peer sends a command to another, which executes it and optionally sends a reply. The data being sent is a mix of externalizable and serialized java objects, in a format optimized for both performance (primarily) and for size. If the blocks of data exceed 32K, they are compressed to reduce the size – this will primarily happen with log records being sent to the log server, since most blocks are well below 100 bytes.

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The statistics server needs to know which config servers to connect to, and retrieve statistics from – in portalprotectceptor-configuration.xml the following property must exist for the statistics server:

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