Threads

Introduction

This library starts a number of threads, which are explained in the following section.

Thread spawned by the WebSocketClient

A WebSocketClient starts the following threads:

• WebSocketTimer - Timer for the lost connection detection
• WebSocketWriteThread-*- Thread to write the messages to the other endpoint
• WebSocketConnectReadThread-* - Thread to connect and read the messages from the other endpoint

Thread spawned by the WebSocketServer

A WebSocketServer starts the following threads:

• WebSocketTimer - Timer for the lost connection detection
• WebSocketWorker-*- Thread for decoding incoming messages (number of threads depends on the number of decoders you are using)
• WebSocketSelector-*- Thread in which the server selector is running