Unimplemented Functionality

• NetworkServerTCP

  • Spinning off new connection sockets in separate threads
  • Managing long-running streams (connections)
    • Keep track of Remote-Host <> stream/socket relationship

• NetworkServerAbstract

  • Extensions to manage avoiding duplicate messages arriving via different transports (TCP, UDP, Multicast)

• MessageAbstract

  • Additional sub-classes to wrap each type of data being sent over the network

• ServerSocial

  • Add the Multicast service which handles announcements and notifications
  • Add the TCP server that handles client connections
  • Add the UDP (client) that send log messages to ServerManagement
  • Add tracking of friends online and notifications to clients and ServerChat
  • Add news/status update and feeds to clients
  • Add support for receiving, storing, and sending images (e.g: new MessageImage class and serialising to/from disk ?)

• ServerChat

  • Add the Multicast service
  • Add Online members tracker
  • Add Friends tracker
  • Add a UDP service to mediate client-to-client chat requests between Friends