We’re pleased to be working with VEXIS Systems Inc. again to extend the high performance pluggable server platform that we built for them back in 2008 using The Server Framework. Later, we extended the server to support the hosting of managed plugins with our CLR Hosting Option Pack and some custom development. This time around we’re adding more new functionality to make it easier for them to integrate with external systems.

Version 6.6.1 of The Server Framework was released today. This release is a minor bug fix release mainly for several bugs in the 6.6 version’s OpenSSL code, see the release notes here, for full details of all changes. All clients using version 6.6 of the OpenSSL Option Pack are advised to upgrade to this release. Bug fixes: Bug fix to JetByteTools::OpenSSL::CAsyncConnector so that we spot failures in the SSL allocation functions due to low memory situations and throw exceptions if we fail to create the SSL objects.

I’ve just found and fixed a bug in version 6.6 of the OpenSSL Option Pack which relates to how we deal with outbound connection establishment errors. Changes in 6.6 mean that the OpenSSL ‘connector’ holds a reference to the socket whilst the SSL connection is active. The bug prevents connections which fail to be established from closing and causes a socket leak. Note that this is ONLY for outbound (client) connections that you establish with The Server Framework.

We’re pleased to be extending the M2M server that we developed for this client back in February last year. They’re adding lots of interesting new functionality. Should be fun!

2014 already. Where does the time go? We’re still very busy with work for our Industrial Control Client but since they needed to get us SC level security clearance for this project if we told you any more we’d have to kill you… Our work for online gaming clients is diversifying a bit as the project we’ve been working on for our secretive Online Gaming Company matures into a solid cloud-based SAS gaming server and we start to work more with the recent influx of Korean games companies that are now using The Server Framework.

We have a new client profile available here for a new client who is using The Server Framework for secret things that they can’t tell us about!

We have a new client profile available here for a new client who selected The Server Framework to replace its previous networking layer in an M2M server which deals with 20,000 devices connected via GPRS.

We have a new client profile available here for a client who uses The Server Framework in their Printer presence and print job transfer system. They use both the OpenSSL Option Pack and the SSPI Option Pack in their product. The ease of adding security and authentication which can communicate with a disparate selection of clients is one of the strong points of developing with The Server Framework.

We have a new client profile available here for a new French client who uses The Server Framework in an M2M server to control its smart alarm panels.

Version 6.6 of The Server Framework was released today. This release is a major release and contains many changes, see the release notes, here, for full details of all changes. All clients are advised to upgrade to this release. Increased performance due to major design changes in the dispatch and processing of completion and per socket buffer pooling. New lock classes which offer more efficient locking. Lots of breaking changes in the Service Tools library.